Mickey Rooney Quotes

You always pass failure on your way to success. ~ Mickey Rooney

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

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. ~ Mickey Rooney

I've been stealing scenes all my life. ~ Mickey Rooney

Women liked me because I made them laugh. ~ Mickey Rooney

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. ~ Mickey Rooney

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

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

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. ~ Mickey Rooney

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

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

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. ~ Mickey Rooney

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

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. ~ 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

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 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

Maybe, in the final analysis, they saw me as something I wasn't and I tried to turn them into something they could never be. I loved them all but maybe I never understood any of them. I don't think they understood me. ~ Ava Gardner

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

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

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

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 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

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

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!" ~ 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 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. ~ 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

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

Yeah, a few of the films I made were so bad they didn't get released - they escaped. ~ 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 don't regret anything I've ever done. I only wish I could have done more. ~ 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

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

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

My great uncle Pvt. Tommy Rooney, USMC, was killed on Guam during the Pacific Campaign in World War II. I was named after him, so I always thought about him and wearing the uniform. The JAG Corps gave me that opportunity after law school. ~ Tom Rooney

On two legs, Mickey Mantle would have been the greatest ballplayer who ever lived. ~ Nellie Fox

The golden age of Luncheon Vouchers ended ten years
ago. For ten years Mickey had been saying, "The golden
age of Luncheon Vouchers is over." And that's what Archie
loved about O'Connell's. Everything was remembered,
nothing was lost. History was never revised or
reinterpreted, adapted or whitewashed. It was as solid and
as simple as the encrusted egg on the clock. ~ Zadie Smith

Watch the old man. Watch how the old man keeps the guys who aren't playing happy. ~ Mickey Mantle

I was going through a second upbringing: learning a new set of assumptions, and feigning a greater level of understanding than I really possessed. ~ Sally Rooney

I sometimes listen to music to get into some place that I need to get. I don't think it's because I have a musician as a father that I do this - most actors do. ~ Mickey Sumner

I hate to say it, but I had a great time in World War II. ~ Andy Rooney

Numbers tend to give the impression that there's more order in the world than there is. ~ Andy Rooney

If you love something, know that it will leave on a day you are far from ready. ~ Kathleen Rooney

I'm not anti-immigration. ~ Mickey Kaus

Unless you're under 12 or into role playing, you shouldn't be wearing Mickey Mouse ears #AHOLE ~ A.O. Storm

Gradually the waiting began to feel less like waiting and more like this was simply what life was: the distracting tasks undertaken while the thing you are waiting for continues not to happen. ~ Sally Rooney

The point of living in the world is just to stay interested. ~ Kathleen Rooney

When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper. ~ Andy Rooney

I've learned ... That when you plan to get even with someone, you are only letting that person continue to hurt you ... More ~ Andy Rooney

I don't mean to in any way impugn the makers of Bentley, but that car is nuts. When I do drive, I drive a Toyota Prius. So driving around the streets of Albuquerque in a Bentley made me feel so fake-a-rooney. ~ Jessica Hecht

I play the game as honestly as I can. If the referee gives a penalty there is nothing you can do. ~ Wayne Rooney

Yeah, I miss the Grateful Dead. I miss that groove. I miss the brotherhood. Absolutely. There's no doubt about it. ~ Mickey Hart

When I hit a home run I usually didn't care where it went. So long as it was a home run was all that mattered. ~ Mickey Mantle

When there are starving people in the world, it seems wrong that so many of us Americans eat as much for entertainment as for nourishment. ~ Andy Rooney

I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. ~ Maurice Sendak

When I was a player, I worried only about myself. Good money and easy work. ~ Mickey Cochrane

There are more beauty parlors than there are beauties. ~ Andy Rooney

He sure is a crazy one," she said. "Sure reminds me of my husband that run away. Just exactly the same guy. I sure hope my Mickey don't grow up that way, they all do now. ~ Jack Kerouac

Mickey [Rourke] one time just basically drove off in the picture car that we were driving in. For my amusement. It was either to kidnap me or for my amusement. ~ Nat Wolff

like an idiot pitching change into a well that nobody ever said was open for wishing. ~ Kathleen Rooney

It was the most fun I've ever had on a movie. It was one of the happiest times in my life. I was living in New York, and I really enjoyed acting at the time. Also, it's funny because that was also the time when I went downhill. ~ Mickey Rourke

In the spring of 1957, Mickey Mantle was the king of New York. He had the Triple Crown to prove it, having become only the 12th player in history to earn baseball's gaudiest jewel. In 1956, he had finally fulfilled the promise of his promise, batting .353, with 52 homers and 130 RBIs. Everybody loved Mickey. ~ Jane Leavy

I am not the first player to have sworn on TV and I won't be the last. ~ Wayne Rooney

I was in a fever to get out from behind the plate. Oh boy, I was terrible back there. ~ Mickey Cochrane

The first song I wrote and had published was titled "Just As Long As That Someone Is You". It was written in 1959, and recorded in 1965 by Jimmy Ellege. I started writing songs because I wanted something of my own to sing. I, at that time, was not aware that the songs I heard on the radio were not written by the folks singing them. I had always loved poetry, and found it easy to integrate a melody with poetry. ~ Mickey Newbury

Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else. ~ Mickey W. Mantle

How do you know I love you?" asked Nadika.
"Because you think my telekinesis is fun. Because you want steak sandwiches at our wedding dinner. Because you pretend to be angry when you want to laugh. Because you smile when you're sleeping, and when you're waking up you hold on to me."
"Marry me."
"Okay."
Conversation between Mickey and Nadika from Mickey & Nadika, An Adventure Across Time and Space. ~ Jenna Lindsey

No one likes my books except the public. ~ Mickey Spillane

I've learned that no matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with. ~ Andy Rooney

I like getting compliments where I don't have to make eye contact with the person ~ Sally Rooney

We had one of those Friday dates that turned into an entire weekend, and by the end of it, I loved him so much my larynx ached. Vulnerable love, incorrigible love. Love in which he was both the nausea and the sodium bicarbonate. ~ Kathleen Rooney

I think the only way you learn is to surround yourself with people that are better than you. ~ Mickey Sumner

I've learned ... That the less time I have to work with, the more things I get done. ~ Andy Rooney

I got a BFA in Fine Art, and then I told my family I was going to be an actress. ~ Mickey Sumner

You know what ends up on the markdown racks? All the weird colors. Guys don't wear orange or citron. ~ Mickey Drexler

I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean, why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number? ~ Andy Rooney

He foresaw the platooning that managers like Casey Stengel used years before it happened. He told me I had to be a switch-hitter if I was going to play. ~ Mickey Mantle

I'd have to say Thierry Henry. From the ages of ten to 16, watching him in the Premier League was amazing and he scored all different types of goals - free-kicks, volleys, left foot, right foot. He was entertaining. He's probably the best centre-forward, I think, to play in the Premier League. ~ Wayne Rooney