Top 81 Quotes & Sayings by Mickey Rooney - Page 2

I've been coming back like a rubber ball for years.

When I open a refrigerator door and the light goes on, I want to perform.

If I ever complain to an agent about anything, he always has a pained look on his face, like, "How can you be so ungrateful? Why, Mick, I just named my yacht after you!"

I've been short all my life. And if anyone wonders what my dying wish will be, they can stop wondering. That will be easy. I'll just tell them, 'I'll have a short bier.'

John Frances, Entertainment Chair, of the Friars Club: Of all the roasts that I have produced for the Friars Club, this is the one that I am most excited about. Mickey is one of the Club's dearest friends, and we wanted to honor him in the way we know best.

Meadowlark Lemon is one very clever man, unique and truly one of a kind.

There were times when I was broke, when I was down in Florida and I had to go to cocktail parties for 500 bucks - to see the guy that used to be in pictures. I'm not ashamed of that. I've never done anything that I was ashamed of. I've done a lot of things I didn't mean to do.

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

On Hollywood turning its back on him: I wasn't in the club. You see, I'm not going to be a stroker. I never have been all my life.

It's confusing. I've had so many wives and so many children I don't know which house to go to first on Christmas.

. . . children - not kids. Kids are goats. I've always spoken of my children as children.

My marriage license reads, 'To whom it may concern,'

I'm 74 but I feel like I'm 35. And it isn't work. You know what it is? It's fun, absolute fun. I don't know many people who are fortunate enough to be in a business like that.

I don't pick the roles. Your agent gets a call for you and you go and they all get together, everybody has fun at the reading, and they say, "There's chemistry here." So that's how it happens.

I'll never make another Hardy picture . . . I'm fed up with these dopey, insipid parts. How long can a guy play a jerk kid? I'm 27 years old. I've been divorced once and separated from my second wife. I have two boys of my own. I spent almost two years in the army. It's time Judge Hardy went out and bought me a double-breasted suit.

I belong to the public. The public made me. The public can break me. I owe them my life.

Clark Gable once said to me, "'Acting school?' [If you go,] I'll kill ya!"

Nowadays, it is fashionable for agents to be out. When you call them, they're always "out." It's in, you see, to be out. If they're in, they're out. So, they're always out. That way, they'll be in.

Now. Now is the most important time of all of your young lives. And what does now stand for - N-O-W? No Other Way. That's the only time - NOW!

When I was 19 years old, I was the number one star of the world for two years. When I was 40, nobody wanted me.

The film The Last Temptation of Christ, no matter what its defenders say, was a slap in the face to Christians everywhere.