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" This interview, never before published, took place on December 13, 2006. There are people who think they know everything about everything. What they don&amp;#039;t know is that every moment is a learning moment. Show me a man with a million dollars and I&amp;#039;ll show you a million guys trying to take it away from him.  I was about six years old when I did Orchids and Ermine. They dressed me in a suit, put a mustache under my nose, a cigar in my mouth, a cane in my hand, and a hat on my head. I go over to a telephone operator and say: &amp;quot;Baby, you&amp;#039;d look good in an Ermine coat.&amp;quot; She says, &amp;quot;You fresh little thing.&amp;quot; I think it was my only line. By now, I&amp;#039;ve done 280 pictures. Don&amp;#039;t retire \u2014 inspire. Change is an opportunity for everybody to think. One of my favorite movies is Patton. I love where they ask him: &amp;quot;Do you ever read the Bible, General?&amp;quot; And he says: &amp;quot;Every goddamn night!&amp;quot; When the bombs were falling in World War II, everything changed but you. You&amp;#039;re always stuck with you. Courage is something you didn&amp;#039;t know you had. All wars concern themselves with money. Kindness, friendship, and family. There&amp;#039;s no price that can buy it. It&amp;#039;s true. As a kid, I was shooting Mickey McGuire \u2014 from the cartoon that used to be in the newspapers. One day, we broke for lunch. My mother had given me 10 cents to buy a sandwich. As I was walking past some offices in the studio, I passed an open door. A man inside called me in and asked who I was. I explained that I was working on Mickey McGuire. He said: &amp;quot;Nice to meet you. I&amp;#039;m Walt Disney. Let me show you something.&amp;quot; He pointed to a picture of a mouse. I said: &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s wonderful. What do you call him?&amp;quot; He said: &amp;quot;Mortimer Mouse.&amp;quot; I looked over a lot of illustrations, and Walt said: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m glad you liked them, Mickey \u2014 &amp;quot; Then he stopped. You could see a thought flash through his mind, and he said: &amp;quot;Would you mind if I named this mouse after you?&amp;quot; I said: &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s fine, but right now I have to go get a cheese sandwich.&amp;quot; There&amp;#039;s no such thing as an acting school. You&amp;#039;re acting now. You&amp;#039;re being yourself. That&amp;#039;s what acting is. When I got married for the fifth time, there was a newspaper headline that read: &amp;quot;Half Pint Takes on a Fifth.&amp;quot; Okay, that&amp;#039;s clever wording. And the truth is, I&amp;#039;ve been married eight times. But Jan and I have been married for 34 years now. We get tired of hearing, &amp;quot;Oh, that Mickey. He only gets married for two weeks.&amp;quot; Back then, marriage was something you did because you thought it was proper. But, to be honest, some were done for publicity. You know when it&amp;#039;s right and you know when it&amp;#039;s wrong. I knew it was right the moment I saw Jan. What I didn&amp;#039;t know was if she could stand me. Even now, you can see it coming. The woman approaching who wants to kiss you. It&amp;#039;s hard. What would you do if a stranger came up to you right in front of your wife and just started kissing you? If I push these women away, they get mad or embarrassed. So what do you do? The male is the weaker of the two sexes. The strength lies in the woman you marry. It&amp;#039;s hard to explain how it was. When you&amp;#039;re young and people are calling you a star, things become abnormal. People think you&amp;#039;re different from everybody else \u2014 and you&amp;#039;re not. I didn&amp;#039;t like the attention. I liked the admiration \u2014 but not the attention. Say what you mean. Mean what you say. I just can&amp;#039;t enjoy a movie reading subtitles. It&amp;#039;s like watching a Chinese station on TV. I just lost a son. I had seven sons. Now, I have six. You don&amp;#039;t get any messages from losing a father or a son \u2014 just feelings. There is a difference between losing a father and losing a son. But there is also common ground. It&amp;#039;s called losing. We all lose. Nobody wins. Understand me when I say that. Nobody wins. Nobody. The United States gives people the opportunity to be free. A lot of people don&amp;#039;t know what to do with that freedom. Did you know that when Thomas Edison was 22, he had 300 patents? Three hundred patents. He was behind the light bulb, radio, the television. That&amp;#039;s who I&amp;#039;d like to meet. I was Edison in the movie, you know. The world has become a teleprompter. Years ago, when you took out a woman, you&amp;#039;d bring her a corsage. Now, everybody is in a hurry. Nobody has a minute to spare. Kindness has gone out the window. Thoughtfulness is in a paper bag. You know how you run into people who say: &amp;quot;You can&amp;#039;t hurt me.&amp;quot; Watch out for those people. This is a wonderful world we live in. We have The Weather Channel. The parade of the past has gone. What&amp;#039;s now? N-O-W. You know what that stands for? No Other Way. Energy is what God gave you to endure. Forever is a long time. Funny thing about a dog. A dog doesn&amp;#039;t care who you are and what you&amp;#039;ve done. A dog&amp;#039;s love is unending. Do you know what the word dog is when you spell it backward? Ever think about that? Have you asked Robin Williams these questions? You should. Listen to symphony music before you go to bed. If I had been tall? I have no idea how it would&amp;#039;ve turned out. You know the title of my autobiography, don&amp;#039;t you? Life Is Too Short. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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