“I was about six years old when I did 'Orchids and Ermine.' They dresse...” — Mickey Rooney Quote

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“I keep going because if you stop, you stop. Why retire? Inspire.”

“Most of our physical education teachers were just teachers, and they had to do the extra stuff on their own. I remember very vividly that they would hold a cane pole between two of the students down low, and we would all jump over it. And they would raise it and raise it and raise it.”

“You can't go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.”

“Nobody from Cane Fork ever got on television before.”

“I want to be an old lady, with my cane, shouting, 'Action!' and 'Cut!'”

“I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.”

“That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.”