Mickey Rourke Quotes
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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 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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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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It was either therapy or die.
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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 spent a lot of years trying to beat the system and, in the end, the system kicked my behind good.
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In order to understand the stock market we have to realize that, like anything enormous and inert, it's fundamentally stable, and, like anything emotion-driven, it's volatile as hell. Got that? Me neither.
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I started having some memory-loss issues. I took a neurological exam, and they said, "Well, you should stop fighting now." And I kept begging them for one more fight, one more fight, and the doctor said to me, "How much are they going to pay you?" I was supposed to fight three more times, and one would have been for a cruiser belt. So I said, "I just need to fight three more times." He said, "Listen, you can't even get hit in the head one more time, your neuro is so bad."
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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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Wrestlers are all pretty busted-up by the ends of their careers.
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My dogs are more important than my family.
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Sometimes, when a man is alone, that's all you got is your dog.
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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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Wrestling and boxing is like Ping-Pong and rugby. There's no connection.
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It's always been the case that you have the really rich, and the really poor. But hey, look, all the great empires have their periods where they rule the world, and then they crumble.
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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 started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that.
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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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People are always afraid of the truth.
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Hey, baby, nobody suffers like the poor.
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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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If you look closely at some scenes in Diner, my eyes look like Dracula's.
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Julian Schnabel painted a picture that he dedicated to my character in Rumble Fish. It was called The Motorcycle Boy. I remember when he brought it over to me at the Mayflower Hotel [in New York] years ago. This is when you and I knew each other.
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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 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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Comeback is a good word, man.
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I have so many boxing gloves around my house that I would get them confused with other gloves.
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The two sports are as different as Ping-Pong and rugby. In boxing, you don’t know what’s going to happen. In wrestling, it’s already prearranged. But the thing I didn’t know about wrestling is that you really get hurt. Because, you know, you’re wrestling in front of a live audience, and you end up doing things like jumps or slams, and 40 percent of the time you don’t land right.
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I thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong.
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I never look backwards. I have always been an athlete. I boxed before I acted.
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