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…

- Mickey Rooney

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 an…

- Mickey Rooney

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-…

- 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

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

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

- Mickey Rooney

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

- 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

You always pass failure on the way to success.

- Mickey Rooney