Mickey Rooney
Mickey Rooney
Mickey Rooneywas an American actor of film, television, Broadway, radio, and vaudeville. In a career spanning 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth23 September 1920
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
boarding chinese delivered house table
I was born in Brooklyn, delivered by a Chinese doctor on a table in a boarding house on Sept. 23, 1920.
bob entire friend great hope meeting star
Meeting Bob Hope was meeting a champion. He was not only a great star but an entertainer and a friend of the entire world,
peace
When I say I do, the justice of the peace replies, 'I know, I know...'
offend
Don't break me up - I wouldn't offend any person, be they black, Asian or whatever.
dear god happiness looking sentiment shared
Everything is about looking for happiness and God. That was a sentiment shared by my dear friend Ronald Reagan.
bless god peace
God bless the universe, God bless Japanese, Chinese, Indians, all of them, and let's have peace.
nineteen
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.
born pleasing reason
This is the kind of world I was born in, one in which I had only one reason for existence: pleasing others.
business fox love worked
Everyone who worked on 'The Fox and the Hound' is important. We're all lucky to be in a business that we love.
money music picture studios wants wonderful
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.'
brothers came family poor
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.
love
Love lasts only for months, sometimes only for minutes. But if you like somebody, it's for a lifetime!
bad films released
Yeah, a few of the films I made were so bad they didn't get released - they escaped.
If you listen, you'll learn. If you talk over each other, you don't accomplish anything.