Mickey Rooney

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

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

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

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

I'm the only man in the world with a marriage licence made out to whom it may concern.

A lot of people have asked me how short I am. Since my last divorce I think Im about 100000 short.

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

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

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.

When I say I do, the justice of the peace replies, 'I know, I know...'

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

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesnt work out you havent wasted the whole day.

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

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

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.

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.

You always pass failure on your way to success.

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

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

Women liked me because I made them laugh.

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

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.

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.

You always pass failure on the way to success.

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.

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

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

I've been stealing scenes all my life.