Quotes from Mickey Rooney

Judy Garland was a different type of entertainer. She was a dancer, a singer, and an incurable romantic.

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 and respect for the craft.

Love lasts only for months, sometimes only for minutes. But if you like somebody, it's for a lifetime!

Show me a man with a million dollars, and I'll show you a million guys trying to take it away from him.

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.

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.

There was, in fact, a standard studio recipe. Take one young actress, pluck her eyebrows, cap her teeth, shape her hairline, pad as required and throw her into the ring with Andy Hardy. Then wait and see. If the public responded, the starlet became a star.

This is the kind of world I was born in, one in which I had only one reason for existence: pleasing others.

You always pass failure on the way to success.

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.