Mickey Rourke Quotes

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Mickey Rourke

Profession : Actor

Birth : September 16, 1956

Mitch Glazer and I went to high school together, and his mother was my English teacher for two years. She was my favorite teacher, and I followed Mitch's career as a journalist, so we've kind of kept in touch over the years.

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Bounty hunters these days - because everything is so sophisticated with computers and surveillance, it doesn't have to be a one-man-army-type guy who goes in and kicks a door down.

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The hardest thing in life to do is to change.

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Comeback is a good word, man.

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The ladies love me and I love the ladies!

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

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When I first met Alan Parker, who directed 'Angel Heart,' he'd heard so many horror stories about me that he was literally scared to death of me. Right away, he sat me down and said, 'I'm very scared of you. I've heard you're a very bad boy.'

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

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I try to find the right director who won't compromise his or anyone else's integrity, and yet be political enough to give the studio what they want, yet put up a fight to maintain that integrity.

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

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You can be mediocre, the way most actors are, and you can still be a top movie star, even if your movies are boring and predictable. All you have to do is know how to sell yourself, let yourself be manufactured.

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When you're young, working in a warehouse or selling hot dogs, you look at work - at acting - as something precious. It gets you out of the stink.

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

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I loved my mother, but I don't like her.

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

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As time goes by and you're getting older and stuff like that - getting older sucks. You know, I hear all this crap about, 'Oh, you can age with dignity.' Really?

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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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Very few men can fall as far as I have and come back. People see me and it's like they've seen a ghost, like I'm back from the dead.

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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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I don't have many Hollywood friends anyway; I thought with my ability I didn't need to make those kind of relationships, but maybe I should have done. Might have made my life easier!

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