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I don't pick the roles. Your agent gets a call for you and you go and they all get together, everybody has fun at the reading, and they say, There's chemistry here. So that's how it happens.
Mickey Rooney
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Mickey Rooney
Age: 93 †
Born: 1920
Born: September 23
Died: 2014
Died: April 6
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