Mickey Rooney Quotes

Had I been brighter, the ladies been gentler, the Scotch been weaker, had the gods been kinder, had the dice been hotter, this could have been a one-sentence story: Once upon a time I lived happily ever after.

Mickey Rooney

Quotes to Explore

I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very glamorous, but I didn't want to do things that no one else was doing. I didn't want to be the odd one out. I wanted to be part of the gang.

Hannah Ware
- School
- Want
- Gang
We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back in and make it their own.

Bebe Rexha
- Song
- Artist
- Write
Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.

Zebulon Pike
- Peace
- Become
- Smoke
My first experience with film was through a still camera. I would sit, very much against my will, with my father in the game reserve, watching some elephant or rhino or whatever, through a 400 millimeter lens and wait, and waiting and waiting.

Gavid Hood
- Experience
- Father
- Game
Where there is no belief in the soul, there is very little drama . . . . Either one is serious about salvation or one is not. And it is well to realize that the maximum amount of seriousness admits the maximum amount of comedy. Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe.

Flannery O'Connor
- Soul
- Comedy
- Universe
Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at all of the world we know: for we have new worlds here.

Lord Dunsany
- World
- Wise
- Gentleman