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
failure
You always pass failure on your way to success.
cleared life muddy waters
All the muddy waters of my life cleared up when I gave myself to Christ.
great judy musicals
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.
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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.
life regain
All I want is to live a peaceful life, to regain my life and be happy.
absolutely exactly gradual life truly wonder
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.
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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.
boy
I was a 14-year-old boy for 30 years.
laughing made
Women liked me because I made them laugh.
dying wish wonder
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.'
boys years thirty
I was a thirteen-year-old boy for thirty years.
way agents humour
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.
ungrateful looks agents
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!"
memories sides hollywood
Hollywood has unfortunately become a memory. It's nothing but a sign on the side of a hill.