I didn’t want to be short. I’ve tried to pretend that being a short guy didn’t matter. I tried to make up for being short by affecting a strut, by adopting the voice of a much bigger man, by spending more money than I made, by tipping double or triple at bars and restaurants, by dating tall, beautiful women. Mickey Rooney Read Quote
Everything is about looking for happiness and God. That was a sentiment shared by my dear friend Ronald Reagan. Mickey Rooney Read Quote
Yeah, a few of the films I made were so bad they didn’t get released – they escaped. Mickey Rooney Read Quote
I was born in Brooklyn, delivered by a Chinese doctor on a table in a boarding house on Sept. 23, 1920. Mickey Rooney Read Quote
If you listen, you’ll learn. If you talk over each other, you don’t accomplish anything. Mickey Rooney Read Quote
When I was nineteen years old, I was the number-one star for two years. When I was forty, nobody wanted me. I couldn’t get a job. Mickey Rooney Read Quote
Judy Garland was a different type of entertainer. She was a dancer, a singer, and an incurable romantic. Mickey Rooney Read Quote
