Mickey Rooney

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Everything is about looking for happiness and God. That was a sentiment shared by my dear friend Ronald Reagan.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“I've been stealing scenes all my life.”

“All I want is to live a peaceful life, to regain my life and be happy.”

“I don't regret anything I've ever done. I only wish I could have done more.”

“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.”

“My money was stolen from me. I was eventually stripped of the ability to make even the most basic decisions... my daily life became unbearable.”

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

“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.”

“I tried to make up for being 5 ft. 3 in. by affecting a strut and adopting the voice of a much bigger man... dating tall, beautiful women... But nothing I could do, after Ava had left me, would add a single inch to my height.”

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

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

“I was born in Brooklyn, delivered by a Chinese doctor on a table in a boarding house on Sept. 23, 1920.”