Mickey Rooney Quotes

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• You always pass failure on the way to success.

  Mickey Rooney

  Life, Motivational, Success

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

  Mickey Rooney

  Inspirational, Moving On, Retirement

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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.

  Mickey Rooney

  Liars, Games, Passing Away

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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.

  Mickey Rooney

  Funny, Marriage, Wedding

  "Philip French's screen legends" by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2010.

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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.

  Mickey Rooney

  Divorce, Thinking, People

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• Dont retire - inspire...Theres a lot to be done

  Mickey Rooney

  Inspire, Done, Retiring

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

  Mickey Rooney

  Regret, Wish, Done

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Mickey Rooney

  Scotch, Once Upon A Time, Stories

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

  Mickey Rooney

  Funny, Marriage, Men

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• Hey kids! Let's put on a show!

  Mickey Rooney

  Kids, Hey, Shows

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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.

  Mickey Rooney

  Sadness, Sweat, Heartache

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• Now. Now is the most important time of all of your young lives. And what does now stand for - N-O-W? No Other Way. That's the only time - NOW!

  Mickey Rooney

  Life, Important, Doe

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• Hollywood has unfortunately become a memory. It's nothing but a sign on the side of a hill.

  Mickey Rooney

  Memories, Hollywood, Sides

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

  Mickey Rooney

  Shoes, Use, Boots

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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.

  Mickey Rooney

  Life, Hurt, Heart

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• And that's the way I have always lived, for the laughs – today. N-O-W. No Other Way.

  Mickey Rooney

  Laughing, Today, Way

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• I hear Jerry Falwell every Sunday here talking about the devil and Hollywood. . . . I'm gonna write him a letter. Hollywood wasn't built on filth and dirt - it was built on talent.

  Mickey Rooney

  Writing, Sunday, Talking

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• When I was 19 years old, I was the number one star of the world for two years. When I was 40, nobody wanted me.

  Mickey Rooney

  Jobs, Stars, Two

  "'Gandhi' Is Winner Of Eight Academy Awards" by Aljean Harmetz, www.nytimes.com. April 12, 1983.

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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.

  Mickey Rooney

  Life, Hollywood, Clubs

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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.

  Mickey Rooney

  Senior, Veterans Day, Elderly

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• When I open a refrigerator door and the light goes on, I want to perform.

  Mickey Rooney

  Light, Doors, Goes On

  "Legendary Actor Mickey Rooney Dead at 93" by Mike Barnes, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 6, 2014.

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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.

  Mickey Rooney

  Growing Up, Let Me, Grows

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Women liked me because I made them laugh.

  Mickey Rooney

  Laughing, Made

  "Mickey Rooney obituary" by Ronald Bergan, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2014.

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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.

  Mickey Rooney

  Fun, Reading, Together

  "EXCLUSIVE: Mickey Rooney Reflects on Night at the Museum!". Interview With Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. April 25, 2007.

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• God bless the universe, God bless Japanese, Chinese, Indians, all of them and let's have peace.

  Mickey Rooney

  Chinese, God Bless, Bless

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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