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.
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I have a really good relationship with a lot of designers. I like Gaultier, Billionaire and Cavalli.
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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.
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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.
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I always knew I'd accomplish something very special - like robbing a bank perhaps.
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A lot of the stuff I am now seeing is edgy, raw kinda material.
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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.
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It was either therapy or die.
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I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Hollywood's famous for putting you in a box.
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Wrestling and boxing is like Ping-Pong and rugby. There's no connection.
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I'm the worst surfer in California. My balance is off from boxing.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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