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I was very immature when I wa...

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

Mickey Rourke 77 quotes

What I've got to do now is le...

What I've got to do now is let them judge me for who I am as an actor and not for my notoriety.

Mickey Rourke 77 quotes

Usually if you read a screenp...

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 77 quotes

I had some things I had to fi...

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 77 quotes

I had a bonding problem when ...

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 77 quotes

I still work out most days. W...

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 77 quotes

Being out of work for 13 to 1...

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

Mickey Rourke 77 quotes

Some of your worst gangsters ...

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

Mickey Rourke 77 quotes

It was the most fun I've ever...

It was the most fun I've ever had on a movie. It was one of the happiest times in my life. I was living in New York, and I really enjoyed acting at the time. Also, it's funny because that was also the time when I went downhill.

Mickey Rourke 77 quotes

As time goes by and you're ge...

As time goes by and you're getting older and stuff like that - getting older sucks. You know, I hear all this crap about, 'Oh, you can age with dignity.' Really?

Mickey Rourke 77 quotes

You want to earn respect in y...

You want to earn respect in your old age. You want to walk into a restaurant and have people say: 'There's Mickey Rourke. He was great in 'The Wrestler.' You don't want them jumping out of windows.

Mickey Rourke 77 quotes

I always knew I'd accomplish ...

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

Mickey Rourke 77 quotes

I never look backwards. I hav...

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

Mickey Rourke 77 quotes

I started to shortcircuit bec...

I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that.

Mickey Rourke 77 quotes

When I first met Alan Parker,...

When I first met Alan Parker, who directed 'Angel Heart,' he'd heard so many horror stories about me that he was literally scared to death of me. Right away, he sat me down and said, 'I'm very scared of you. I've heard you're a very bad boy.'

Mickey Rourke 77 quotes

I grew up in a gym in Miami, ...

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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There's always going to be a ...

There's always going to be a war going on inside of me. That's just, I think, my make-up.

Mickey Rourke 77 quotes

I'm an old broken down piece ...

I'm an old broken down piece of meat and I deserve to be all alone . . .

Mickey Rourke 77 quotes

I had achieved so much succes...

I had achieved so much success in my career and then had this spectacular fall from grace that left me unemployed and living in a town, Los Angeles, that is built on envy. Once you fall, people don't really root for you to come back again. I'd go to restaurants where I always had the best table and half the time they wouldn't even let me pay. And then when I stopped making movies, the same places wouldn't even give me a lousy table, never mind the best one!

Mickey Rourke 77 quotes

Change for me was really hard...

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 77 quotes

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