Mickey Rooney
Mickey Rooney
Mickey Rooneywas an American actor of film, television, Broadway, radio, and vaudeville. In a career spanning nine decades and continuing until shortly before his death, he appeared in more than 300 films and was one of the last surviving stars of the silent film era...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth23 September 1920
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
absolutely exactly gradual life truly wonder
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.
peace
When I say I do, the justice of the peace replies, 'I know, I know...'
bob entire friend great hope meeting star
Meeting Bob Hope was meeting a champion. He was not only a great star but an entertainer and a friend of the entire world,
boarding chinese delivered house table
I was born in Brooklyn, delivered by a Chinese doctor on a table in a boarding house on Sept. 23, 1920.
animators choices match plenty sure
I just want to make sure that I give the animators everything they need, so they have plenty of choices to match their animation.
boy
I was a 14-year-old boy for 30 years.
laughing made
Women liked me because I made them laugh.
dying wish wonder
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.'
boys years thirty
I was a thirteen-year-old boy for thirty years.
way agents humour
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.
ungrateful looks agents
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!"
memories sides hollywood
Hollywood has unfortunately become a memory. It's nothing but a sign on the side of a hill.
fun reading together
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.
kids army boys
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.