Latest Mickey Rourke Quotes from Interviews

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

  Mickey Rourke

  Eye, Looks, Diners

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

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

  Mickey Rourke

  Acting, Enough, Traffic

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

• 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.

  Mickey Rourke

  Memories, Kids, Phones

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Mickey Rourke

  Confused, Boxing, House

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

• When I was like 12 or 13,Muhammad Ali gave me a pair of his trunks that were white satin with gold stripes. They were full of blood, and my mother threw them away. I think it's the first time I ever cursed at my mother.

  Mickey Rourke

  Mother, Thinking, Blood

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Mickey Rourke

  New York, Character, Boys

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• I tried to change my name for the fights, but the only way they could pay me money was if I used my own name. I wanted to change my name to, like, Romeo something-or-other, and they said, "No, we can't do that. We've got to use Mickey Rourke." Because they paid me a lot of money to go over to Europe and Asia to fight.

  Mickey Rourke

  Fighting, Europe, Names

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

• 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

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

  Mickey Rourke

  Careers, Busted, Ends

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Mickey Rourke

  Boxers, Camps, Isolated

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

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

  Mickey Rourke

  Play, Dozen, Broadway

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

• I had gotten injured during the boxing, and I was supposed to take several months off because I'd had a couple of concussions, and so I sort of just left the boxing and got into the acting by accident.

  Mickey Rourke

  Couple, Boxing, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think the first year and a half that I was in New York I was having trouble just living somewhere. Back in them days the city was a lot different than it is now.

  Mickey Rourke

  New York, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• [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

• 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.

  Mickey Rourke

  Looks, Hey, World

• 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

  Fall, Careers, Roots