Mickey Rooney Quotes

"I`m in pretty good shape for the shape I`m in." - Mickey Rooney at 58

Would he marry all those women again? "Absolutely. I loved every one of them."

My partners weren`t what we call in horse racing parlance routers. They were sprinters; they went out of the gate, but then they stopped. They couldn`t go the distance.

People say, `How can you be married eight times?` But I played the hand dealt me the way I was supposed to. I was friendly with most of my ex-wives. My God, there`s a Mickey Rooney`s Former Wives Marching Band!

On his marriages: "When I say I do, the Justice of the Peace replies, `I know, I know.` I`m the only man in the world whose marriage license reads, `To Whom it May Concern.` But to have been married eight times is not normal. That`s only half-way intelligent."

You`ve got to recognize, there will never be another you. It has nothing to do with ego; it happens to be the truth. There will never be another person the same. There`ll never be another you. There`ll never be another me... And there`ll never be another show like this!

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.

Had I been brighter, the ladies been gentler, the Scotch weaker, the gods kinder, the dice hotter - it might have all ended up in a one-sentence story.

Love wears off too quickly.

I don`t regret anything I`ve ever done. I only wish I could have done more.

I was a 14-year-old boy for 30 years.

Upon winning his lifetime achievement Oscar, 1983: "Tonight, I could even kiss Louis B. Mayer!"

On his life-long friend and frequent co-star, Judy Garland: "Judy turned to drugs because she was in pain and because drugs made her feel good. As one of the MGM kids, she`d been treated for most of her life to magical, instant, solutions to everything...She could never accept herself so she was always on the run."

I didn`t ask to be short. I didn`t want to be short. I`ve tried to pretend that being a short guy didn`t matter.

I just want to be a professional. I couldn`t live without acting.

All the muddy waters of my life cleared up when I gave myself to Christ.

I`ve been through four publics. I`ve been coming back like a rubber ball for years.

(On his Feud with Ernest Borgnine): All the Oscars in the world can`t buy him dignity, class, and talent. I don`t know why he is famous and why he is a star. Talk about a lucky jerk.

If it`s immorally wrong, it`s not normal. Jesus Christ said the effeminate are an abomination to me. Are you aware of that? I don`t watch the Ellen show. I wish her all kinds of luck. Except that I`m not a fan. But there are a lot of people who aren`t fans of Mickey Rooney and you can`t please everyone.

I think the family pictures are what people really want to see - and musicals, of course. (2007)

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn`t work out, you haven`t wasted a whole day.