Mickey Rooney Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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; I couldn't get a job.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Women liked me because I made them laugh.

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

I've been stealing scenes all my life.

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

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

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

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

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.'