Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth.

What about Mickey Mouse? Disney tried very hard to make him a star. But Mickey Mouse is more of a symbol than a real character.

What did these insurance companies think? It's not a . . . toothache where you can pull the tooth and be done with it.

That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.

I don't know anyone who enjoys going to the hospital. To help remedy this, I got an idea to create what a Laugh Room in the pediatric ward of hospitals.

Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies.