Betsy Booth:
Now don't you feel glad just to be alive?
Andrew 'Andy' Hardy: I've never before really appreciated the advantage of being dead.
--Mickey Rooney (as Andrew 'Andy' Hardy) in Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
Andrew 'Andy' Hardy: I've never before really appreciated the advantage of being dead.
--Mickey Rooney (as Andrew 'Andy' Hardy) in Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
Betsy Booth:
Well, let's go on inside. Maybe the coffins will cheer you up.
Andrew 'Andy' Hardy: It's a fine world. Back in Carvel there are people waiting to laugh at my funeral. Here in New York they've got coffins to cheer me up.
--Mickey Rooney (as Andrew 'Andy' Hardy) in Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
Andrew 'Andy' Hardy: It's a fine world. Back in Carvel there are people waiting to laugh at my funeral. Here in New York they've got coffins to cheer me up.
--Mickey Rooney (as Andrew 'Andy' Hardy) in Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
Ginger Gray:
Were you always out of your mind?
Danny Churchill, Jr.: No, no just lately.
--Mickey Rooney (as Danny Churchill, Jr.) in Girl Crazy
Danny Churchill, Jr.: No, no just lately.
--Mickey Rooney (as Danny Churchill, Jr.) in Girl Crazy
Lt. Harry Brubaker:
Did you ever hear Admiral Tarrant go on about the war? About the chosen few who have to lay it on the line?
Mike Forney: Naw, Me and Nester don't do too much fraternizing with Admirals.
--Mickey Rooney (as Mike Forney) in The Bridges at Toko-Ri
Mike Forney: Naw, Me and Nester don't do too much fraternizing with Admirals.
--Mickey Rooney (as Mike Forney) in The Bridges at Toko-Ri
Demetrius, in Love with Hermia:
[Puck is leading Demetrius astray through a fog] Lysander! Speak again! You runaway. You coward. Are you fled?
Puck: You coward! Are you bragging to the stars? Telling the bushes that you look for wars, and wilt not come?
--Mickey Rooney (as Puck or Robin Goodfellow, a Fairy) in A Midsummer Night's Dream
Puck: You coward! Are you bragging to the stars? Telling the bushes that you look for wars, and wilt not come?
--Mickey Rooney (as Puck or Robin Goodfellow, a Fairy) in A Midsummer Night's Dream
Benjy Benjamin:
[in a hospital in bandages and casts] This is all your fault. This is all your fault right from the beginning to the end.
J. Algernon Hawthorne: You know, even for a policeman, your behavior was ruddy outrageous.
Sylvester Marcus: Yeah, you could have taken a fair share like the rest of us, but no. You had to go and wrap up the whole scene, baby.
Ding Bell: We had 350,000 bucks right in our hands.
Melville Crump: Let's see, 14 into $350,000...
Ding Bell: [groans] Oh, shut up!
--Mickey Rooney (as Ding Bell) in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
J. Algernon Hawthorne: You know, even for a policeman, your behavior was ruddy outrageous.
Sylvester Marcus: Yeah, you could have taken a fair share like the rest of us, but no. You had to go and wrap up the whole scene, baby.
Ding Bell: We had 350,000 bucks right in our hands.
Melville Crump: Let's see, 14 into $350,000...
Ding Bell: [groans] Oh, shut up!
--Mickey Rooney (as Ding Bell) in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Benjy Benjamin:
Wall? Walnut tree?
Ding Bell: No.
Benjy Benjamin: Walnuts?
Ding Bell: No.
Benjy Benjamin: In bags?
Ding Bell: NO!
--Mickey Rooney (as Ding Bell) in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Ding Bell: No.
Benjy Benjamin: Walnuts?
Ding Bell: No.
Benjy Benjamin: In bags?
Ding Bell: NO!
--Mickey Rooney (as Ding Bell) in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Polly Williams:
Hi ya Church, hows your steeple?
Danny Churchill, Jr.: So long Polly, watch your crackers!
--Mickey Rooney (as Danny Churchill, Jr.) in Girl Crazy
Danny Churchill, Jr.: So long Polly, watch your crackers!
--Mickey Rooney (as Danny Churchill, Jr.) in Girl Crazy
Peggy Lorgan McNeil:
I don't think I quite understand.
Lorenz Hart: You will after you've known me ten or fifteen years.
--Mickey Rooney (as Lorenz Hart) in Words and Music
Lorenz Hart: You will after you've known me ten or fifteen years.
--Mickey Rooney (as Lorenz Hart) in Words and Music
Air traffic control tower staffer:
If you can, give us your position. Who is flying the plane?
Ding Bell: [Benji is at the controls] What do you mean "who's flying the plane"? Nobody's flying the plane!
--Mickey Rooney (as Ding Bell) in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Ding Bell: [Benji is at the controls] What do you mean "who's flying the plane"? Nobody's flying the plane!
--Mickey Rooney (as Ding Bell) in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
