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)

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

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