Mickey Rourke Quotes

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Mickey Rourke

Profession : Actor

Birth : September 16, 1956

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

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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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I still work out most days. When I do it, I go full blast five or six days a week, two to three hours a day. I enjoy it. It's therapeutic for me.

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

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To me, everything's competition.

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The acclaim I'm getting for 'The Wrestler' means everything in the world to me. But it also means I can't take my foot off the gas pedal.

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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.

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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.

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Hollywood's famous for putting you in a box.

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

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

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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.

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You want to earn respect in your old age. You want to walk into a restaurant and have people say: 'There's Mickey Rourke. He was great in 'The Wrestler.' You don't want them jumping out of windows.

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I spent so long studying really hard to become a fine actor, but threw it all away because I got the adulation and the fame so easily.

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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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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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A reputation is really hard to live down.

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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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Once you've been somebody, really, you have a career and you're a nobody anymore, and you're getting older, you're living what's called a state of shame.

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

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