“A lot of people have asked me how short I am. Since my last divorce, I think I'm about USD100,000 short.”

“All the muddy waters of my life cleared up when I gave myself to Christ.”

“Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.”

“Don't break me up - I wouldn't offend any person, be they black, Asian or whatever.”

“Everyone who worked on 'The Fox and the Hound' is important. We're all lucky to be in a business that we love.”

“Everything is about looking for happiness and God. That was a sentiment shared by my dear friend Ronald Reagan.”

“I buy women shoes and they use them to walk away from me.”

“I didn't want to be short. I've tried to pretend that being a short guy didn't matter. I tried to make up for being short by affecting a strut, by adopting the voice of a much bigger man, by spending more money than I made, by tipping double or triple at bars and restaurants, by dating tall, beautiful women.”

“I don't regret anything I've ever done. I only wish I could have done more.”

“I just want to make sure that I give the animators everything they need, so they have plenty of choices to match their animation.”

“I keep going because if you stop, you stop. Why retire? Inspire.”

“I made all these great musicals with Judy Garland. It was all about me going into a barn and saying: 'Let's put on a show.' That's what me and Judy did.”

“I was a thirteen-year-old boy for thirty years.”

“I was born in Brooklyn, delivered by a Chinese doctor on a table in a boarding house on Sept. 23, 1920.”

“If you listen, you'll learn. If you talk over each other, you don't accomplish anything.”

“I'm the only man in the world with a marriage licence made out to whom it may concern.”

“I've been stealing scenes all my life.”

“Sometimes the transition from being in control of your life to having absolutely no control is swift, but other times it is so gradual that you wonder exactly when it truly began.”

“This is the kind of world I was born in, one in which I had only one reason for existence: pleasing others.”

“To those seniors, and especially elderly veterans like myself, I want to tell you this: You are not alone, and you having nothing to be ashamed of. If elder abuse happened to me, it can happen to anyone. I want you to know that you deserve better.”

“When I say I do, the justice of the peace replies, 'I know, I know...'”

“When I was nineteen years old, I was the number-one star for two years. When I was forty, nobody wanted me. I couldn't get a job.”

“Women liked me because I made them laugh.”

“Yeah, a few of the films I made were so bad they didn't get released - they escaped.”

“You always pass failure on your way to success.”

“You've got to recognize, there will never be another you. It has nothing to do with ego; it happens to be the truth. There will never be another person the same. There'll never be another you.”