Quotes by Mickey Rooney

About Mickey Rooney:

Mickey Rooney was an American actor of film, television, Broadway, radio, and vaudeville. In a career spanning nearly nine decades and continuing until shortly before his death, he appeared in more than 300 films and was one of the last surviving stars of the silent film era.
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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

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

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

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

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

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

Mickey Rooney

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

Mickey Rooney

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

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 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

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

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

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

Mickey Rooney

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

Mickey Rooney

You always pass failure on your way to success.

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

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

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 tripl...

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

Author Bio

  • NameMickey Rooney
  • DescriptionAmerican film actor
  • AliasesJoseph Yule, Jr.
  • BornSeptember 23, 1920
  • DiedApril 6, 2014
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Singer; Novelist; Voice Actor; Writer
  • AwardsAcademy Juvenile Award; Academy Honorary Award; Golden Globe Award; Emmy Award; Bronze Star Medal