MICKEY ROONEY September 23, 1920 – April 6, 2014

Quotes:

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

You always pass failure on your way to success.

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

A lot of people have asked me how short I am. Since my last divorce, I think I’m about $100,000 short.

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

I was a thirteen-year-old boy for thirty years.

Sure, I love the chicks. I love ’em all. But when you’re nuts about too many, how can a guy settle down to one?

There may be a little snow on the mountain, but there’s a lot of fire in the furnace.

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

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.

My partners weren’t what we call in horse racing parlance “routers”. They were sprinters; they went out of the gate, but then they stopped. They couldn’t go the distance.

People say, “How can you be married eight times?” But I played the hand dealt me the way I was supposed to. I was friendly with most of my ex-wives. My God, there’s a Mickey Rooney’s Former Wives Marching Band!

[on his lifelong friend and frequent co-star, Judy Garland]
Judy turned to drugs because she was in pain and because drugs made her feel good. As one of the MGM kids, she’d been treated for most of her life to magical, instant, solutions to everything . . . She could never accept herself so she was always on the run.

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RIP Mickey. You gave the world a ton of entertainment. Thank you.