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Mickey Rooney Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: September 23, 1920 - April 6, 2014

Topics

Keep Going Inspire You Stop Why

TV's not the problem, and I'm tired of it being posed as this antithesis to creativity and productivity. If TV's getting in your way of writing a book, then you don't want to write a book bad enough.

Creativity Tired Writing Book Enough

At 20, you're cocky and you think you can rule the world, and you get it all wrong.

World Think You Wrong Cocky Rule

My whole life has been singing and painting. I just do those two things.

Life Painting Singing Two Things

But I think Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang really got that thing where, if a movie reads really funny and then has some dramatic or violent or sinister stuff in it, you can't forget that primarily it has to be even funnier than you read it or that other stuff doesn't work.

Robert Downey, Jr.

Work Funny Kiss Think You Forget

You might like it as a joke or because you liked it then, but there isn't a whole new generation discovering Wham!.

Generation You New Joke Whole Like

I've had, like, four long-term boyfriends. I tend to be in relationships for long periods of time.

Time Long Relationships Long-Term

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

Community Great Peace World Country

I need my friends, I need my house, I need my garden.

Miranda Richardson

Gardening Friends House Garden Need

I stopped watching sports because I didn't want to watch someone running up and down the field making millions and I'm not doing anything about it. That methodology made me go harder and take control of my career.

Sports Me Control Someone Doing Go

I really respect the world that Arthur Conan Doyle created and the way that that has been able to be reinterpreted over and over again.

Jonny Lee Miller

Respect World Way Over Been Able

As kids, there's somehow the fear that these bullies can end your life if they want to. Everything is blown up, and occasionally that kind of awful thing does happen.

Life Fear End Want Kind Everything

When I read a book I liked, I would get a pen and one of my father's legal pads and rewrite it from memory as if I had thought of it myself. It was a clear sign that I wanted to be involved in writing, even if it was just pretend at that point.

Father Myself Memory Writing Book

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