Mickey Rourke quotes - page 2

A lot of those who let you down are those who seemed the closest to you. (Mickey Rourke)
I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing. View quote
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I have a really good relationship with a lot of designers. I like Gaultier, Billionaire and Cavalli. View quote
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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. View quote
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I grew up in a gym in Miami, the one where Muhammad Ali trained. I had 142 amateur fights and lost three. View quote
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I always knew I'd accomplish something very special - like robbing a bank perhaps. View quote
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A lot of the stuff I am now seeing is edgy, raw kinda material. View quote
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It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars. View quote
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It was either therapy or die. View quote
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I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that. View quote
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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)
I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise. View quote
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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. View quote
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Usually if you read a screenplay, no matter who's writing it, the bad guy is always written as a one-dimensional bad guy. View quote
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Hollywood's famous for putting you in a box. View quote
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Wrestling and boxing is like Ping-Pong and rugby. There's no connection. View quote
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I'm the worst surfer in California. My balance is off from boxing. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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All that prosthetic makeup drains you. By the time it's lunch, you're done. (Mickey Rourke)
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. View quote
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