Mickey Rooney

I just want to be a professional. I couldn't live without acting.

There are people who think they know everything about everything. What they don't know is that every moment is a learning moment.

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.

When I say I do, the justice of the peace replies, 'I know, I know...'

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.

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

I don't drink. I don't smoke. I don't drink coffee. Starbucks is not going to make any money on me.

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.'

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.

I think without a doubt there will never be a voice like Judy Garland.

I'm a ham who wants to be a small part of anything.

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.