Top 81 Quotes & Sayings by Mickey Rooney

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Last updated on December 23, 2024.

Mickey Rooney was an American actor. In a career spanning nine decades, he appeared in more than 300 films and was among the last surviving stars of the silent-film era. He was the top box-office attraction from 1939 to 1941, and one of the best-paid actors of that era. At the height of a career marked by declines and comebacks, Rooney performed the role of Andy Hardy in a series of 16 films in the 1930s and 1940s that epitomized mainstream America's self-image.

American - Actor | September 23, 1920 - April 6, 2014

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Show me a man with a million dollars, and I'll show you a million guys trying to take it away from him.

Mickey Rooney

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.

Mickey Rooney

God bless the universe, God bless Japanese, Chinese, Indians, all of them, and let's have peace.

Mickey Rooney

I don't drink. I don't smoke. I don't drink coffee. Starbucks is not going to make any money on me.

Mickey Rooney

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.

Mickey Rooney

Love lasts only for months, sometimes only for minutes. But if you like somebody, it's for a lifetime!

Mickey Rooney

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

Mickey Rooney

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

Mickey Rooney

I'm a ham who wants to be a small part of anything.

Mickey Rooney

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.

Mickey Rooney

I tried to make up for being 5 ft. 3 in. by affecting a strut and adopting the voice of a much bigger man... dating tall, beautiful women... But nothing I could do, after Ava had left me, would add a single inch to my height.

Mickey Rooney

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.

Mickey Rooney

I didn't ask to be short. I didn't want to be short. I've tried to pretend that being a short guy didn't matter.

Mickey Rooney

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

Mickey Rooney

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.

Mickey Rooney

Judy Garland was a different type of entertainer. She was a dancer, a singer, and an incurable romantic.

Mickey Rooney

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

Mickey Rooney

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

Mickey Rooney

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

Mickey Rooney

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.

Mickey Rooney

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

Mickey Rooney

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.

Mickey Rooney

I was a gnomish prodigy - half-human, half-goblin, man-child, child-man.

Mickey Rooney

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

Mickey Rooney

Joe Louis was one of my closest friends.... I'm a great boxing fan. I used to go to the American Legion Stadium in Hollywood, every Friday night for 15 years. Down the aisle would come Lupe Velez, Johnny Weismuller, Mae West. All at ringside.

Mickey Rooney

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

Mickey Rooney

I just want to be a professional. I couldn't live without acting.

Mickey Rooney

My money was stolen from me. I was eventually stripped of the ability to make even the most basic decisions... my daily life became unbearable.

Mickey Rooney

I came from a poor family. My father was from Glasgow, Scotland; my mother's brothers were brakemen on the railroad. We didn't have anything but mush for breakfast.

Mickey Rooney

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

Mickey Rooney

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

Mickey Rooney

There are people who think they know everything about everything. What they don't know is that every moment is a learning moment.

Mickey Rooney

A lot of people have asked me how short I am. Since my last divorce, I think I'm about $100,000 short.

Mickey Rooney

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

Mickey Rooney

Change is an opportunity for everybody to think.

Mickey Rooney

I've been stealing scenes all my life.

Mickey Rooney

All I want is to live a peaceful life, to regain my life and be happy.

Mickey Rooney

I always say, 'Don't retire - inspire.'

Mickey Rooney

The audience and I are friends. They allowed me to grow up with them. I've let them down several times. They've let me down several times. But we're all family.

Mickey Rooney

If Barbra Steisand wants to make a picture called 'My Pink Fingernail,' the studios will go, 'Gee, Barbra, what a wonderful idea! Money is no object! Take two years in preproduction and write the music, and you'll direct.'

Mickey Rooney

I'm 5 feet 3, but I was 6 feet 4 when I married Ava.

Mickey Rooney

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

Mickey Rooney

Ray Pearson, played for UCLA. He's a friend of mine.

Mickey Rooney

I think without a doubt there will never be a voice like Judy Garland.

Mickey Rooney

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

Mickey Rooney

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

Mickey Rooney

You always pass failure on your way to success.

Mickey Rooney

Women liked me because I made them laugh.

Mickey Rooney

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

Mickey Rooney

Love wears off too quickly.

Mickey Rooney

Dont retire - inspire...Theres a lot to be done

Mickey Rooney

Hollywood has unfortunately become a memory. It's nothing but a sign on the side of a hill.

Mickey Rooney

Life is an infiltration course. We all try and get through it. We all try and get through it unscathed - maybe not hurt, not bruised. No bones broken, maybe a few hearts here and there.

Mickey Rooney

I hear Jerry Falwell every Sunday here talking about the devil and Hollywood. . . . I'm gonna write him a letter. Hollywood wasn't built on filth and dirt - it was built on talent.

Mickey Rooney

Had I been brighter, the ladies been gentler, the Scotch been weaker, had the gods been kinder, had the dice been hotter, this could have been a one-sentence story: Once upon a time I lived happily ever after.

Mickey Rooney

Someone once asked me what I want on my epitaph when I pass away. Just the words 'I tried.' That's what this game of life is all about. Trying. There's the tryers, the criers, and the liars.

Mickey Rooney

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

Hey kids! Let's put on a show!

Mickey Rooney

And that's the way I have always lived, for the laughs – today. N-O-W. No Other Way.

Mickey Rooney

Look, I come from vaudeville, I come from burlesque, I come from heartaches, I come from sadness, I come from gladness, I come from work and sweat and respect for the craft.

Mickey Rooney

Top 81 Quotes & Sayings by Mickey Rooney

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