Mickey Rooney Quotes - Page 2

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• Clark Gable once said to me, "'Acting school?' [If you go,] I'll kill ya!"

  Mickey Rooney

  School, Acting, Said

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• I belong to the public. The public made me. The public can break me. I owe them my life.

  Mickey Rooney

  Life, Break, Made

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• I'm 74 but I feel like I'm 35. And it isn't work. You know what it is? It's fun, absolute fun. I don't know many people who are fortunate enough to be in a business like that.

  Mickey Rooney

  Fun, People, Enough

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• It's confusing. I've had so many wives and so many children I don't know which house to go to first on Christmas.

  Mickey Rooney

  Children, Wife, House

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• I'll never make another Hardy picture . . . I'm fed up with these dopey, insipid parts. How long can a guy play a jerk kid? I'm 27 years old. I've been divorced once and separated from my second wife. I have two boys of my own. I spent almost two years in the army. It's time Judge Hardy went out and bought me a double-breasted suit.

  Mickey Rooney

  Kids, Army, Boys

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• My marriage license reads, 'To whom it may concern,'

  Mickey Rooney

  May, Concern, License

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• I've been coming back like a rubber ball for years.

  Mickey Rooney

  Years, Balls, Rubber

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

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• The film The Last Temptation of Christ, no matter what its defenders say, was a slap in the face to Christians everywhere.

  Mickey Rooney

  Christian, Religious, Temptation

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

  Mickey Rooney

  Boys, Years, Thirty

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• Meadowlark Lemon is one very clever man, unique and truly one of a kind.

  Mickey Rooney

  Clever, Unique, Men

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• 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!"

  Mickey Rooney

  Funny, Ungrateful, Complaining

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• . . . children - not kids. Kids are goats. I've always spoken of my children as children.

  Mickey Rooney

  Children, Kids, Goats

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• 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.'

  Mickey Rooney

  Wish, Dying, Wonder

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• 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.

  Mickey Rooney

  Funny, Agents, Way

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• There were times when I was broke, when I was down in Florida and I had to go to cocktail parties for 500 bucks - to see the guy that used to be in pictures. I'm not ashamed of that. I've never done anything that I was ashamed of. I've done a lot of things I didn't mean to do.

  Mickey Rooney

  Party, Mean, Florida

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• John Frances, Entertainment Chair, of the Friars Club: Of all the roasts that I have produced for the Friars Club, this is the one that I am most excited about. Mickey is one of the Club's dearest friends, and we wanted to honor him in the way we know best.

  Mickey Rooney

  Friendship, Honor, Clubs

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

  Mickey Rooney

  Acting, Want

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

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