Quotes from Mickey Rooney

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

Don't break me up - I wouldn't offend any person, be they black, Asian or whatever.

Everything is about looking for happiness and God. That was a sentiment shared by my dear friend Ronald Reagan.

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.

If Barbra Steisand wants to make a picture called 'My Pink Fingernail,' the studios will go, 'Gee, Barbra, what a wonderful idea! Money is no object! Take two years in preproduction and write the music, and you'll direct.'

If you listen, you'll learn. If you talk over each other, you don't accomplish anything.

To those seniors, and especially elderly veterans like myself, I want to tell you this: You are not alone, and you having nothing to be ashamed of. If elder abuse happened to me, it can happen to anyone. I want you to know that you deserve better.

It's confusing. I've had so many wives and so many children I don't know which house to go to first on Christmas.

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.

I'm the only man in the world with a marriage licence made out to whom it may concern.

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!"

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.

I buy women shoes and they use them to walk away from me.

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

I've been married so many times my certificate now reads: 'To Whom It May Concern.'

You always pass failure on your way to success.

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

I'm the only man in the world with a marriage licence made out to whom it may concern.

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

Change is an opportunity for everybody to think.

Clark Gable once said to me, 'Acting school?' [If you go,] I'll kill ya!

Everything is about looking for happiness and God.

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

I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing.