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Mickey Rooney

Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule, Jr.; September 23, 1920) is an American film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and stage appearances span his lifetime. During his career, he has won multiple awards, including an Oscar, a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award. Best known for his work as the Andy Hardy character, Rooney has one of the longest movie careers of any actor, entering the Guinness Book of Records as the actor with longest career on both stage and screen

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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.

– Mickey Rooney

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

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

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

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Change is an opportunity for everybody to think.

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

– Mickey Rooney

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Everything is about looking for happiness and God.

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If it's immorally wrong, it's not normal.

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

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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.

– Mickey Rooney

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

– Mickey Rooney

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

– Mickey Rooney

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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.

– Mickey Rooney

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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.

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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.

– Mickey Rooney

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

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When I was 19 years old, I was the number one star of the world for two years. When I was 40, nobody wanted me.

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

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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.

– Mickey Rooney

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