Mickey Rourke Quotes

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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.

  Mickey Rourke

  Guy, Mind, Noses

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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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  Fighting, Three, Miami

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• People are always afraid of the truth.

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  People

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• Comeback is a good word, man.

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  Men, Comeback, Good Words

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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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  Wise, Anger, Careers

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

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  Closest

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• A reputation is really hard to live down.

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  Reputation, Hard

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

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  Broken, Meat, Pieces

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• Hey, baby, nobody suffers like the poor.

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  Baby, Suffering, Hey

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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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  Immature, Balance, Young

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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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  Fighting, Men, Able

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• Actors should shut up about politics. They tend to be ill-informed finger-pointers who just cosy up to some flavour of-the-month liberal.

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  Actors, Months, Shut Up

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

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  Acting, Enough, Traffic

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

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  Keys, Guy, Lows

  "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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• Women are much stronger than men. When a woman says enough is enough, which means enough is enough. Man will always lie at her feet in the hope of return. I was lying. And somehow happy.

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  Lying, Mean, Men

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• I've been with a lot of women, but who's counting? It's nothing I'm proud of. It's a physical need. Sometimes afterwards I just want to blow my brains out, it's so meaningless.

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  Blow, Brain, Needs

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

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  Special, Robbing, Accomplish

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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.

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  Trust, Real, Men

  "Mickey Rourke Talks Immortals, Life, and Sin City". Interview with Wilson Morales, www.blackfilm.com. October 31, 2011.

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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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  Pay The Price, Years, People

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• I get a call, and it's Howard Bingham, and he's got the champ on the line.Muhammad Ali didn't remember me from being a kid, but he was going, "Yeah, you're in bed, and you want your mama with you . . ." It really helped so much. He spent 15 or 20 minutes on the phone with me. That's a memory that I'll always cherish.

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  Memories, Kids, Phones

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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  Years, Trying, Beats

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

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  Talent

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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!

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  Fall, Careers, Roots

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

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  Stuff, Materials, Seeing

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

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  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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