Mickey Rourke famous quotes

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

#Fighting #Three #Miami

All I am hoping for is to be able to work-I think my best work is still ahead of me-I think all that I have been through in the last several years have only made me a better, more interesting actor.
-- Mickey Rourke

#Thinking #Years #Interesting

I behaved worse than anybody for 15 years, and you have to pay the price for that. I used to blame other people, then therapy made me realise I had to change.
-- Mickey Rourke

#Years #People #Pay

Comeback is a good word, man.
-- Mickey Rourke

#Men #Comeback

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

#Athlete #Looks #Backwards

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

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

#Reputation

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

#Care #Cruise #Therapy

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

#Guy #Mind #Noses

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

#Wise #Careers

I have a really good relationship with a lot of designers. I like Gaultier, Billionaire and Cavalli.
-- Mickey Rourke

#Good Relationship #Designer #Billionaire

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

#Years #Trying #Beats

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

#Baby #Suffering #Hey

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

#Long #Actors #Study

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

#Hollywood #Boxes

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

#Hands #Actresses #Woods

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

#Years #Parks #Walks

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

#Children #Father #Hate

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

#Feelings #Way #Shame

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

#Immature #Balance #Young

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

#Stuff #Materials

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

#Thinking #Years #Beats

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

#Fighting #Men #Able

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

#Dog #Important #My Family

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

#Choices #Acting #Down And

I trained like an animal, but the thing is focus and concentration. When the bell rings it's like when the little red light goes on over the camera. And I can usually nail my lines on the first or second take because I'm right there.
-- Mickey Rourke

#Animal #Light #Focus

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

#Makeup #Lunch #Done

A couple of guys won Academy Awards for the things that I turned down. Today, after coming to terms with everything, after being in therapy for a long time-there are areas where I will compromise.
-- Mickey Rourke

#Couple #Awards #Long

I had some things I had to fix. It took me 14 years to do it. But it was never really fun back in the day to work with directors who were a lot older and were like authoritarian and talking to you like that.
-- Mickey Rourke

#Fun #Years #Talking

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

#California #Boxing #Balance

I was very ashamed of seeing a therapist because I thought only crazy people went, and then, after about nine years, I asked him, 'Well, was I really crazy?' And he nodded and said, 'You were but not any more.'
-- Mickey Rourke

#Crazy #Years #People

Years ago I realized that maybe I made mistake, politically, when I turned a lot of that stuff down. I would go off to obscure places and make movies that six people went to see.
-- Mickey Rourke

#Mistake #Hands #Years

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

#Talent

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

#Special #Robbing #Accomplish

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

#Two #Work Out #Six

People are always afraid of the truth.
-- Mickey Rourke

#People

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

#Wrestling #Boxing

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

#Stars #Actors #Making Money

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

#Keys #Guy #Lows

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

#Dog #Men #Sometimes

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

#Writing #Guy #Matter

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

#Wrestling #Boxing #Ping Pong

Bounty hunters these days - because everything is so sophisticated with computers and surveillance, it doesn't have to be a one-man-army-type guy who goes in and kicks a door down.
-- Mickey Rourke

#Army #Men #Doors

I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job.
-- Mickey Rourke

#Jobs #Tired #Fighting

Change for me was really hard because I had built myself up to be a certain kind of man my whole life, as men are where I come from. I thought I got to handle things different that's gonna make me feel like a real pussy. For me it was hard to turn the other cheek. Even though it's a stronger choice. It was very hard to make the change, but I had to in order to survive. Otherwise they would have won.
-- Mickey Rourke

#Trust #Real #Men

It was either therapy or die.
-- Mickey Rourke

#Therapy