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American boxer and actor, Birth: 16-9-1952 Mickey Rourke Quotes
1.
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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2.
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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3.
Comeback is a good word, man.
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4.
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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5.
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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6.
I'm an old broken down piece of meat and I deserve to be all alone . . .
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7.
A couple of guys won Academy Awards for the things that I turned down. Today, after coming to terms with everything, after being in therapy for a long time-there are areas where I will compromise.
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8.
People are always afraid of the truth.
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Quote Topics by Mickey Rourke: Years Thinking Men Boxing Fighting People Guy Wrestling Actors Three Looks Careers Acting Memories New York Names House Hands Balance Hey Hurt Therapy Beats Couple Two Dog Long Sports Cruise Broadway
9.
Hey, baby, nobody suffers like the poor.
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10.
All that prosthetic makeup drains you. By the time it's lunch, you're done.
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11.
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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12.
Some of your worst gangsters are guys who were very low-key.
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13.
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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14.
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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15.
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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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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17.
It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars.
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18.
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.
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19.
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.
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20.
All I am hoping for is to be able to work-I think my best work is still ahead of me-I think all that I have been through in the last several years have only made me a better, more interesting actor.
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21.
I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with a feeling of abandonment and shame.
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22.
[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.
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23.
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.
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24.
I thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong.
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25.
I trained like an animal, but the thing is focus and concentration. When the bell rings it's like when the little red light goes on over the camera. And I can usually nail my lines on the first or second take because I'm right there.
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26.
I never look backwards. I have always been an athlete. I boxed before I acted.
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27.
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."
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28.
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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29.
I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job.
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30.
Hollywood's famous for putting you in a box.
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31.
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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32.
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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33.
I always knew I'd accomplish something very special - like robbing a bank perhaps.
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34.
A lot of the stuff I am now seeing is edgy, raw kinda material.
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35.
In order to understand the stock market we have to realize that, like anything enormous and inert, it's fundamentally stable, and, like anything emotion-driven, it's volatile as hell. Got that? Me neither.
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36.
Evan Rachel Wood is the best actress I've ever worked with, hands down.
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37.
Wrestlers are all pretty busted-up by the ends of their careers.
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38.
Wrestling and boxing is like Ping-Pong and rugby. There's no connection.
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39.
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.
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40.
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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41.
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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42.
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.
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43.
I wanted to change my name to Romeo Florentino. Romeo Florentino - that's a good fighter's name.
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44.
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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45.
Sometimes, when a man is alone, that's all you got is your dog.
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46.
I'm the worst surfer in California. My balance is off from boxing.
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47.
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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48.
Boxers are very isolated - or isolated within their own camps.
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49.
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."
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50.
I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong.
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