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I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that. — Mickey Rourke

A reputation is really hard to live down. — Mickey Rourke

Very few men can fall as far as I have and come back. People see me and it's like they've seen a ghost, like I'm back from the dead. — Mickey Rourke

I never look backwards. I have always been an athlete. I boxed before I acted. — Mickey Rourke

I'm the worst surfer in California. My balance is off from boxing. — Mickey Rourke

People need medicine and they need therapists. — Mickey Rourke

The only film I've enjoyed starring a wrestler was Mickey Rourke in 'The Wrestler.' — Dwayne Johnson

Actors should shut up about politics. They tend to be ill-informed finger-pointers who just cosy up to some flavour of-the-month liberal. — Mickey Rourke

I love Mickey Rourke. I think he's an all-American classic. He's great. — Bridget Everett

Mickey Rourke was the Brad Renfro of the '80s. — Brad Renfro

To me, everything's competition. — Mickey Rourke

Boxers are very isolated - or isolated within their own camps. — Mickey Rourke

I'm only as rich as my next film. — Mickey Rourke

I never knew my father, and I'd hate to repeat that kind of cycle with my own children, because I'd also want to be there for them no matter what. — Mickey Rourke

The acclaim I'm getting for 'The Wrestler' means everything in the world to me. But it also means I can't take my foot off the gas pedal. — Mickey Rourke

I like the mystery of seeing someone like Mickey Rourke do his thing. I don't know how he does it, but I'm glad he does it. — Jim Parrack

The ladies love me and I love the ladies! — Mickey Rourke

I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise. — Mickey Rourke

I thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong. — Mickey Rourke

I'm an old broken down piece of meat and I deserve to be all alone ... — Mickey Rourke

Some of your worst gangsters are guys who were very low-key. — Mickey Rourke

I was a big Mickey Rourke fan in his first incarnation. I thought that at the time he was America's greatest screen actor. — Jamie Sives

I loved my mother, but I don't like her. — Mickey Rourke

All that prosthetic makeup drains you. By the time it's lunch, you're done. — Mickey Rourke

When you're young, working in a warehouse or selling hot dogs, you look at work - at acting - as something precious. It gets you out of the stink. — Mickey Rourke

My dogs are more important than my family. — Mickey Rourke

There's always going to be a war going on inside of me. That's just, I think, my make-up. — Mickey Rourke

I spent so long studying really hard to become a fine actor, but threw it all away because I got the adulation and the fame so easily. — Mickey Rourke

Usually if you read a screenplay, no matter who's writing it, the bad guy is always written as a one-dimensional bad guy. — Mickey Rourke

I always knew I'd accomplish something very special - like robbing a bank perhaps. — Mickey Rourke

Hollywood's famous for putting you in a box. — Mickey Rourke

Comeback is a good word, man. — Mickey Rourke

Winning an Oscar ain't about performance. There's a lot of politics involved. — Mickey Rourke

If you look closely at some scenes in Diner, my eyes look like Dracula's. — Mickey Rourke

People ask me about that all the time. They say, "Did you ever think of directing?" And I say, "It's completely out of the question." — Mickey Rourke

In boxing, you don't know what's going to happen. In wrestling, it's already prearranged. — Mickey Rourke

I never wanted to be Mickey Rourke. I don't think he did either. — Paul Neilan

I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing. — Mickey Rourke

I don't mind getting punched in the nose by a guy standing in front of me. It's getting stabbed in the back that I can't handle. — Mickey Rourke

Where I come from, being a hard man is being able to take a good beating and then get back up again and carry on fighting. — Mickey Rourke

Sometimes, when a man is alone, that's all you got is your dog. — Mickey Rourke

When you lose everything, and I mean everything, you sit there in this empty room in the dark, and the only person who can get you out is you. — Mickey Rourke

It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars. — Mickey Rourke

I wanted to change my name to Romeo Florentino. Romeo Florentino - that's a good fighter's name. — Mickey Rourke

Wrestlers are all pretty busted-up by the ends of their careers. — Mickey Rourke

I love the first Godfather movie, part one. And two. — Mickey Rourke

I couldn't direct traffic.It's hard enough just acting. — Mickey Rourke

Being out of work for 13 to 15 years is no walk in the park. — Mickey Rourke

I still work out most days. When I do it, I go full blast five or six days a week, two to three hours a day. I enjoy it. It's therapeutic for me. — Mickey Rourke

I used to love playing football in high school. I played with the same guys for 10 years. — Mickey Rourke

Evan Rachel Wood is the best actress I've ever worked with, hands down. — Mickey Rourke

Hey, baby, nobody suffers like the poor. — Mickey Rourke

I don't care what Tom Cruise says about therapy. — Mickey Rourke

You know, back in acting school they always teach you, 'Make bold choices and look for activities that are interesting.' — Mickey Rourke

Acting was never my first choice as a profession, but I came to terms with it when I decided I better buckle down and be the best I can be at it. — Mickey Rourke

People are always afraid of the truth. — Mickey Rourke

It's no fun being a loser. Trust me. — Mickey Rourke

I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong. — Mickey Rourke

I grew up in a gym in Miami, the one where Muhammad Ali trained. I had 142 amateur fights and lost three. — Mickey Rourke

I spent a lot of years trying to beat the system and, in the end, the system kicked my behind good. — Mickey Rourke

The hardest thing in life to do is to change. — Mickey Rourke

Wrestling and boxing is like Ping-Pong and rugby. There's no connection. — Mickey Rourke

I started out fighting before I was acting, actually, then got hurt and got into the acting. — Mickey Rourke

I probably did a dozen plays, like Off-Off-Broadway stuff. — Mickey Rourke

It was either therapy or die. — Mickey Rourke

I'd just as soon do a big-budget movie as an independent one. — Mickey Rourke

I'm not gonna rush out and see the next 'Batman;' I'm not big on formula movies. — Mickey Rourke

A lot of the stuff I am now seeing is edgy, raw kinda material. — Mickey Rourke

I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with a feeling of abandonment and shame. — Mickey Rourke

A lot of those who let you down are those who seemed the closest to you. — Mickey Rourke

What I've got to do now is let them judge me for who I am as an actor and not for my notoriety. — Mickey Rourke

I've heard some duff Irish accents. The worst must be Mickey Rourke. — James Nesbitt

I have so many boxing gloves around my house that I would get them confused with other gloves. — Mickey Rourke