Love wears off too quickly. Mickey Rooney More Quotes by Mickey Rooney More Quotes From Mickey Rooney I was a thirteen-year-old boy for thirty years. Mickey Rooney thirty boys years I'll never make another Hardy picture . . . I'm fed up with these dopey, insipid parts. How long can a guy play a jerk kid? I'm 27 years old. I've been divorced once and separated from my second wife. I have two boys of my own. I spent almost two years in the army. It's time Judge Hardy went out and bought me a double-breasted suit. Mickey Rooney army boys kids I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing. Mickey Rooney Judy Garland was a different type of entertainer. She was a dancer, a singer, and an incurable romantic. Mickey Rooney Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day. Mickey Rooney Change is an opportunity for everybody to think. Mickey Rooney Everything is about looking for happiness and God. Mickey Rooney 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 If it's immorally wrong, it's not normal. Mickey Rooney If you listen, you'll learn. If you talk over each other, you don't accomplish anything. Mickey Rooney Love lasts only for months, sometimes only for minutes. But if you like somebody, it's for a lifetime! Mickey Rooney 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 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 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 This is the kind of world I was born in, one in which I had only one reason for existence: pleasing others. Mickey Rooney 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 I was about six years old when I did 'Orchids and Ermine.' They dressed me in a suit, put a mustache under my nose, a cigar in my mouth, a cane in my hand, and a hat on my head. Mickey Rooney mouth hat me mustache You always pass failure on your way to success. Mickey Rooney you failure success way All I want is to live a peaceful life, to regain my life and be happy. Mickey Rooney be-happy my-life happy life Joe Louis was one of my closest friends.... I'm a great boxing fan. I used to go to the American Legion Stadium in Hollywood, every Friday night for 15 years. Down the aisle would come Lupe Velez, Johnny Weismuller, Mae West. All at ringside. Mickey Rooney down great friends night