Mickey Rooney Quotes

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

Uncertainty is normal in the first few days of a new government.

Without whining and without making myself a tragic figure, there is no replacement for the loss of your privacy. It's a huge sacrifice.

At some stage in most people's lives, things turn upside down, and nothing is as you expected it to be.

Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.

I'm not someone who feels settled.

Life is never all one thing. It bounces around. Certainly, my own life has.

In this business, you just never know from day to day. It's one reason I held off getting too involved in entertainment. I like being able to plan, I like to know what I'm going to be doing.

Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason.

But everyone gets burnt, don't they? Certain things are outside of your control. I suppose the only thing you can learn as a director is to not put yourself into situations where it can get outside of your control. And that's what happened.

Sometimes you do get caught up in the midst of becoming... a product, a brand, and not having a say in any of that.

You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

I have had no control over my life. I have lived in a complete bubble. They found me and picked me for the part. And now I'm desperately trying to find my way through it.

I started to walk the halls of HUD. I went into every office and every cubicle. I met a lot of people. I soon realized that they all realized that they were staying and I was going. It’s just that none of us knew when.

Change and growth seem to tower beyond the control and even the judgment of men.

How fragile and unpredictable the course of history is.

History goes out of control almost as often as nature does.

There is a feeling that events are in the air; all that is unpredictable is their timing. Perhaps we shall see several more years of peace, but it is equally possible that overnight some tremendous upheaval will happen.

The future is unpredictable.

The older I get, the more I'm surprised with life. Things don't end up the way you think they will.

Nothing is guaranteed.

The world is unpredictable.

Life can't be always be stable always right. There are things which are out of your control.

In football, you know anything can happen and that everything can change from minute to minute.