The best Quotes by Mickey Rooney

The best Quotes by Mickey Rooney

Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule Jr.; other pseudonym Mickey Maguire; September 23, 1920 – April 6, 2014) was an American actor, producer, radio entertainer, and vaudevillian.

You always pass failure on your way to success.

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

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.

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

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.

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That's L.A. They worship everything and they value nothing.

Sebastian Wilder in La La Land

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Welcome to a city where people trying to disappear aren't actually trying.

Joe Goldberg in You - Season 2 Episode 2

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I lived in L.A. for a few months. It seemed like no one there had parents. Or if they did have parents, they would deny it.

Catherine O'Hara

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Linda: "Why did you decide to come to Los Angeles?"
Lucifer: "The same reason as everyone else: the weather, p*rnstars, Mexican food."

Lucifer Morningstar in Lucifer - Season 1 Episode 3

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People here in Los Angeles are disgusted now about a sex scandal involving Arnold Schwarzenegger. Apparently for seven years, he carried on a sexual relationship with his own wife.

Craig Kilborn

Los Angeles was the kind of place where everybody was from somewhere else and nobody really droppped anchor.

Michael Connelly in The Lincoln Lawyer - The Brass Verdict

The L.A. weather is a lot like Taiwan's, where you don't observe four seasons, so the years can pass and you don't feel a thing.

Los Angeles Taiwan

You're lucky we're not in Los Angeles, because Angelinos can smell BS a mile away.

Melinda Monroe in Virgin River - Season 1 Episode 1

I'm from the Compton slums, and that's how the West ride
I'm from the city where two of the best died

The Game - The City, Album: The R.E.D. Album

The Notorious B.I.G.Eazy-E Los Angeles

Success is all about having the confidence to shoot for something even if it seems impossible.

The secret behind success isn't as much of a secret as people think. It's pretty simple. It's working as hard as you can to accomplish what you want.

Christian McCaffrey

For the soul, laughing is what oxygen is for the lungs.

Louis de Funès

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Laughing & Smile

Stop that! I'm your boss...- uhm: husband!

Louis de Funès - Der Querkopf

It's not about the absence of fear. It's overcoming it.

Emma Watson

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What gets scary is when your self-worth is tied up in what strangers think of you.

Emma Watson

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Self-Confidence

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

Orson Welles

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Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

Orson Welles

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

Anthony Hopkins

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Self-Confidence Gossip & Rumors

I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

Anthony Hopkins

My father always said, "Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf" - so I make sure I read.

Emilia Clarke

I came out of my mum's stomach going, "I want to be an actor!"

Emilia Clarke

We think too much and feel too little.

Charlie Chaplin

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Thinking Feelings & Emotions

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

Charlie Chaplin

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Crying & Tears Rain

If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live?

Jackie Chan

Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person's life.

Jackie Chan

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

Klaus Kinski

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Failures & Mistakes

I only drink with people I like. When meeting people I don't like, I drink right before.

Klaus Kinski

I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor.

Bruce Willis

Hair loss is God's way of telling me I'm human.

Bruce Willis

I dream of a day where I walk down the street and hear people talk about Morality, Sustainibility and Philoshophy instead of the Kardashians.

Keanu Reeves

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The Kardashians

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

Keanu Reeves

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Relationships Falling in love

It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.

Vanity is my favourite sin.

I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.

Samuel L. Jackson

Barack Obama 2008

Anyone who tells you money can't buy happiness never had any.

Samuel L. Jackson

Wealth & Richness

You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see. But you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.

Johnny Depp

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Heart Feelings & Emotions Seeing

If you love two people at the same time, choose the second one, because if you really loved the first one you wouldn't have fallen for the second.

Johnny Depp

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I'm a doer, and whether it was the tsunami in Sri Lanka or the earthquake in Indonesia, I was always saying, "I should be there; I should be helping out."

Paul Walker

Indonesia Helping

As you go through the grind and the distraction of a career, it's easy to lose sight of your dreams.

Paul Walker

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Dreaming Career

If I love you, I show you I love you every day. Little things, big things.

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

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Love declerations

The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

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Character Self-Confidence

Life is fleeting. And if you're ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer sky when the stars are strung across the velvety night. And when a shooting star streaks through the blackness, turning night into day... make a wish and think of me.

Robin Williams

If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.

Robin Williams

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

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