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

Mickey Rooney Quotes

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

— Mickey Rooney

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

— Mickey Rooney

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

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

— Mickey Rooney

Women liked me because I made them laugh.

— Mickey Rooney

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

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

My marriage license reads, ‘To whom it may concern,’

— Mickey Rooney

Hey kids! Let’s put on a show!

— Mickey Rooney

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

— Mickey Rooney

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

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

— Mickey Rooney

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

— Mickey Rooney

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

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

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

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

— Mickey Rooney

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

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn’t work out, you haven’t wasted the whole day.

— Mickey Rooney

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
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