Mickey Rourke Quotes

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Mickey Rourke

Profession : Actor

Birth : September 16, 1956

My dogs are more important than my family.

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

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I didn't have a childhood, really, because I worked my whole life and... other reasons. So when I had some success, I went ballistic. That was my childhood, and the party kept going on.

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

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I love the first Godfather movie, part one. And two.

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People need medicine and they need therapists.

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When you lose everything, and I mean everything, you sit there in this empty room in the dark, and the only person who can get you out is you.

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I used to love playing football in high school. I played with the same guys for 10 years.

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There's always going to be a war going on inside of me. That's just, I think, my make-up.

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Winning an Oscar ain't about performance. There's a lot of politics involved.

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I'd just as soon do a big-budget movie as an independent one.

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Sometimes the independent movies can get a little too arty-farty. You watch the IFC Channel and you want to throw up. You don't always have to take things so serious, you know.

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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.

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In Hollywood, you're always playing roles... It's like going through the motions. But in real life, it's like, you gotta take care of business. It's not just the movies.

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People are always afraid of the truth.

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