Mickey Rourke quotes
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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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“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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“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.”
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“I never look backwards. I have always been an athlete. I boxed before I acted.”
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“A lot of those who let you down are those who seemed the closest to you.”
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“A reputation is really hard to live down.”
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“I don't care what Tom Cruise says about therapy.”
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“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.”
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“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 have a really good relationship with a lot of designers. I like Gaultier, Billionaire and Cavalli.”
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“I spent a lot of years trying to beat the system and, in the end, the system kicked my behind good.”
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“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”
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“Hollywood's famous for putting you in a box.”
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“Evan Rachel Wood is the best actress I've ever worked with, hands down.”
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“Being out of work for 13 to 15 years is no walk in the park.”
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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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“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.”
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“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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“A lot of the stuff I am now seeing is edgy, raw kinda material.”
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“I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong.”
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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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“My dogs are more important than my family.”
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“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.”
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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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“All that prosthetic makeup drains you. By the time it's lunch, you're done.”
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“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.”
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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.”
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“I'm the worst surfer in California. My balance is off from boxing.”
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“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.'”
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“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.”
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“I thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong.”
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“I always knew I'd accomplish something very special - like robbing a bank perhaps.”
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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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“In boxing, you don't know what's going to happen. In wrestling, it's already prearranged.”
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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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“Some of your worst gangsters are guys who were very low-key.”
-- Mickey RourkeSource : "Mickey Rourke on Megan Fox: 'Probably the Best Young Actress I've Ever Worked With'". Interview with Jeff Labrecque, ew.com. February 05, 2010.
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“Sometimes, when a man is alone, that's all you got is your dog.”
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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.”
-- Mickey RourkeSource : The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. November 10, 2011.
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“Wrestling and boxing is like Ping-Pong and rugby. There's no connection.”
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“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.”
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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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“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 RourkeSource : "Mickey Rourke Talks Immortals, Life, and Sin City". Interview with Wilson Morales, www.blackfilm.com. October 31, 2011.
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