Mickey Rooney Quotes
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. . . children - not kids. Kids are goats. I've always spoken of my children as children.
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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.
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Clark Gable once said to me, "'Acting school?' [If you go,] I'll kill ya!"
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Meadowlark Lemon is one very clever man, unique and truly one of a kind.
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I keep going because if you stop, you stop. Why retire? Inspire.
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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.
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I don't regret anything I've ever done. I only wish I could have done more.
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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.
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I've been coming back like a rubber ball for years.
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When I open a refrigerator door and the light goes on, I want to perform.
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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.
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I buy women shoes and they use them to walk away from me.
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And that's the way I have always lived, for the laughs – today. N-O-W. No Other Way.
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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.
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A lot of people have asked me how short I am. Since my last divorce, I think I'm about $100,000 short.
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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.
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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.
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Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.
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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.
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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.
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Hey kids! Let's put on a show!
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The film The Last Temptation of Christ, no matter what its defenders say, was a slap in the face to Christians everywhere.
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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.
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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!"
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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.
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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.'
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You always pass failure on the way to success.
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Dont retire - inspire...Theres a lot to be done
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Women liked me because I made them laugh.
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I just want to be a professional. I couldn't live without acting.
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