Top 35 Mickey Rooney Quotes

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

Change is an opportunity for everybody to think.

Show me a man with a million dollars, and I’ll show you a million guys trying to take it away from him.

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

I think without a doubt there will never be a voice like Judy Garland.

You always pass failure on your way to success.

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

I’m 5 feet 3, but I was 6 feet 4 when I married Ava.

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.

I was a gnomish prodigy – half-human, half-goblin, man-child, child-man.

I tried to make up for being 5 ft. 3 in. by affecting a strut and adopting the voice of a much bigger man… dating tall, beautiful women… But nothing I could do, after Ava had left me, would add a single inch to my height.

Women liked me because I made them laugh.

My money was stolen from me. I was eventually stripped of the ability to make even the most basic decisions… my daily life became unbearable.

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.

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.

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

I’ve been stealing scenes all my life.

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.

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

I just want to make sure that I give the animators everything they need, so they have plenty of choices to match their animation.

I didn’t ask to be short. I didn’t want to be short. I’ve tried to pretend that being a short guy didn’t matter.

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

Judy Garland was a different type of entertainer. She was a dancer, a singer, and an incurable romantic.

When I say I do, the justice of the peace replies, ‘I know, I know…’

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

I just want to be a professional. I couldn’t live without acting.

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.

Love wears off too quickly.

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

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

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.

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

Love lasts only for months, sometimes only for minutes. But if you like somebody, it’s for a lifetime!

I don’t drink. I don’t smoke. I don’t drink coffee. Starbucks is not going to make any money on me.