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  • Actor
  • born 1952
  • 103 quotes

Mickey Rourke, an actor (born 1952), is quoted 103 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Boxing, Men, Years and Therapy.

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Comeback is a good word, man.

It was either therapy or die.

It's no fun being a loser. Trust me.

People are always afraid of the truth.

Hey, baby, nobody suffers like the poor.

A reputation is really hard to live down.

The ladies love me and I love the ladies!

My dogs are more important than my family.

Hollywood's famous for putting you in a box.

The hardest thing in life to do is to change.

People need medicine and they need therapists.

I don't care what Tom Cruise says about therapy.

I love the first Godfather movie, part one. And two.

I couldn't direct traffic. It's hard enough just acting.

I probably did a dozen plays, like Off-Off-Broadway stuff.

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

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

Boxers are very isolated - or isolated within their own camps.

A lot of the stuff I am now seeing is edgy, raw kinda material.

Sometimes, when a man is alone, that's all you got is your dog.

Wrestlers are all pretty busted-up by the ends of their careers.

I thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong.

I'm the worst surfer in California. My balance is off from boxing.

Evan Rachel Wood is the best actress I've ever worked with, hands down.

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

Wrestling and boxing is like Ping-Pong and rugby. There's no connection.

A lot of those who let you down are those who seemed the closest to you.

If you look closely at some scenes in Diner, my eyes look like Dracula's.

All that prosthetic makeup drains you. By the time it's lunch, you're done.

Winning an Oscar ain't about performance. There's a lot of politics involved.

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

I'm not gonna rush out and see the next 'Batman;' I'm not big on formula movies.

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

I used to love playing football in high school. I played with the same guys for 10 years.

In boxing, you don't know what's going to happen. In wrestling, it's already prearranged.

I started out fighting before I was acting, actually, then got hurt and got into the acting.

I have so many boxing gloves around my house that I would get them confused with other gloves.

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

I wanted to change my name to Romeo Florentino. Romeo Florentino - that's a good fighter's name.

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

I spent a lot of years trying to beat the system and, in the end, the system kicked my behind good.

I have a really good relationship with a lot of designers. I like Gaultier, Billionaire and Cavalli.

I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong.

I grew up in a gym in Miami, the one where Muhammad Ali trained. I had 142 amateur fights and lost three.

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

I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.

It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars.

You know, back in acting school they always teach you, 'Make bold choices and look for activities that are interesting.'

Usually if you read a screenplay, no matter who's writing it, the bad guy is always written as a one-dimensional bad guy.

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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