Quotes by Mickey Rooney - Page 2

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 / Film Actor
Life
Clubs
Hollywood
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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!
Mickey Rooney / Film Actor
Life
Doe
Important
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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 / Film Actor
Ability
Daily Life
Stolen
Unbearable
Decisions
Basic
Became
Life Money Me
Daily
Stripped
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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 / Film Actor
Barn
Garland
Judy
Musicals
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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 / Film Actor
Growing Up
Grows
Let Me
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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 / Film Actor
Breakfast
Glasgow
Poor
Scotland
Family Mother Father
Brothers
Mush
Railroad
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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 / Film Actor
Funny
Complaining
Ungrateful
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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.'
Mickey Rooney / Film Actor
Dying
Wish
Wonder
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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 / Film Actor
Heartache
Sadness
Sweat
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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.
Mickey Rooney / Film Actor
Enough
Fun
People
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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 / Film Actor
Mustache
Cane
Dressed
Hat
Mouth
Nose
Suit
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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 / Film Actor
Gradual
No Control
Swift
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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 / Film Actor
Sunday
Talking
Writing
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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 / Film Actor
Life
Heart
Hurt
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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 / Film Actor
Games
Liars
Passing Away
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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 / Film Actor
Fun
Reading
Together
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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 / Film Actor
Truth
Ego
Happens
Same
Got
Recognize
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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 / Film Actor
Funny
Agents
Way
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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 / Film Actor
Once Upon A Time
Scotch
Stories
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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 / Film Actor
Direct
Studios
Gee
Object
Pink
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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 / Film Actor
Dating
Add
Adopting
Beautiful Women
Height
Affecting
Inch
Make Up
Strut
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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 / Film Actor
Aisle
Boxing
Closest
Closest Friends
Friday
Friday Night
Legion
Louis
Joe
Stadium
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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 / Film Actor
Veterans Day
Abuse
Ashamed
Deserve
Elderly
Senior
Alone Myself Me
Elder
Seniors
Veterans
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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.
Mickey Rooney / Film Actor
Friendship
Clubs
Honor
Way
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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 / Film Actor
Florida
Mean
Party
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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 / Film Actor
Dating
Adopting
Bars
Beautiful Women
Restaurants
Tipping
Affecting
Pretend
Double
Make Up
Strut
Triple
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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.
Mickey Rooney / Film Actor
Kids
Army
Boys
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