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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
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
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
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
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
Hollywood's famous for putting you in a box.
— Mickey Rourke
Comeback is a good word, man.
— 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 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 used to love playing football in high school. I played with the same guys for 10 years.
— 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
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
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
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
