Mickey Rourke Quotes - Page 2

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• People ask me about that all the time. They say, "Did you ever think of directing?" And I say, "It's completely out of the question."

  Mickey Rourke

  Thinking, People, Ask Me

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Mickey Rourke

  Years, Parks, Walks

  "Rourke: 'It's My Last Chance; I Just Wanted to Bring It'" by Sheila Marikar, abcnews.go.com. December 22, 2008.

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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 Rourke

  Writing, Guy, Matter

  The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. November 10, 2011.

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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.

  Mickey Rourke

  Feelings, Way, Shame

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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.

  Mickey Rourke

  Sports, Hurt, Wrestling

  Interview with Christopher Walken, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 16, 2009.

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• [The tension] between the Christians and Muslims goes back to the Crusades, doesn't it? It's too easy to blame everything on one guy. These are unpredictable, dangerous times, and I don't think that anyone really knows quite what to do.

  Mickey Rourke

  Christian, Thinking, Guy

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• When I did Sean Penn’s movie, I think I was living in, like, a $500-a-month room, and someone called me up or bumped into me and asked me if I’d come up to work for a day. That sort of got me going a little bit. But it wasn’t until Sin City [2005] that I kind of got back into the game.

  Mickey Rourke

  Thinking, Sin City, Games

  Interview with Christopher Walken, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 16, 2009.

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

  Mickey Rourke

  Names, Fighter, Wanted

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

  Mickey Rourke

  Choices, Acting, Down And

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

  Mickey Rourke

  Wrestling, Boxing, Connections

  "Mickey Rourke Explains His Preparation For 'The Wrestler': 'I Had Some Demons'". Interview with Josh Horowitz, www.mtv.com. September 11, 2008.

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

  Mickey Rourke

  Dog, Men, Sometimes

  "Mickey Rourke: 'Change has been hard for me'" by Mike Celizic, www.today.com. January 23, 2009.

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

  Mickey Rourke

  California, Boxing, Balance

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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.

  Mickey Rourke

  Jobs, Tired, Fighting

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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.

  Mickey Rourke

  Couple, Awards, Long

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• Hollywood's famous for putting you in a box.

  Mickey Rourke

  Hollywood, Boxes

  The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. November 10, 2011.

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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.

  Mickey Rourke

  Animal, Light, Focus And Concentration

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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.

  Mickey Rourke

  Children, Father, Hate

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• By the end of the shoot [of Wrestler], my trainer was pushing me up three flights of stairs to my house and holding my arm like I was an old cripple. I had three MRIs in the first two months of working on the film. I felt like it really was over by the time we started shooting the movie.

  Mickey Rourke

  Two, House, Three

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

  Mickey Rourke

  Thinking, Years, Beats

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

  Mickey Rourke

  Boxers, Camps, Isolated

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Mickey Rourke

  Makeup, Lunch, Done

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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."

  Mickey Rourke

  Memories, Fighting, Loss

  Interview with Christopher Walken, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 16, 2009.

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• Since I knew wrestling was all choreographed, I thought, Oh, they don't get hurt at all. But I walked away with a renewed respect for the sport. Because I was very ignorant before - I knew nothing about it.

  Mickey Rourke

  Sports, Hurt, Wrestling

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Mickey Rourke

  Athlete, Looks, Backwards

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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.

  Mickey Rourke

  Thinking, Years, Interesting

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