27 Mickey Rourke Quotes and Sayings
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About Mickey Rourke
Philip Andre “Mickey” Rourke Jr. is an American actor, screenwriter, activist and former boxer who has appeared primarily as a leading man in drama, action, and thriller films.
During the 1980s, Rourke starred in the comedy-drama Diner (1982), the drama Rumble Fish (1983), the crime-black-comedy film The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984), and the erotic drama 9½ Weeks (1986). He received critical praise for his work in the Charles Bukowski biopic Barfly and the horror mystery Angel Heart (both 1987). In 1991, Rourke teamed up with Don Johnson and Tom Sizemore in the cult classic action film Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man; also in 1991, Rourke-who trained as a boxer in his early years-left acting and became a professional boxer for a time.[ 1]
He got the lead role in ‘Sin City’ in 2005, for which he received several awards including the Chicago Film Critics Association award. His performance in the film ‘The Wrestler’ also earned him several awards including an Academy Award nomination. Since then, he has acted in several commercially successful films. [ 2]
Mickey Rourke Quotes and Sayings
We’ve put together this collection of the best inspirational Mickey Rourke quotes:
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.
Mickey Rourke
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.
Mickey Rourke
People are always afraid of the truth.
Mickey Rourke
I never look backwards. I have always been an athlete. I boxed before I acted.
Mickey Rourke
Comeback is a good word, man.
Mickey Rourke
A lot of those who let you down are those who seemed the closest to you.
Mickey Rourke
I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.
Mickey Rourke
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.
Mickey Rourke
I’m an old broken down piece of meat and I deserve to be all alone . . .
Mickey Rourke
I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong.
Mickey Rourke
Mickey Rourke Quotes #11:
I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing.
Mickey Rourke
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.
Mickey Rourke
A reputation is really hard to live down.
Mickey Rourke
It’s no fun being a loser. Trust me.
Mickey Rourke
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.
Mickey Rourke
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.
Mickey Rourke
Some of your worst gangsters are guys who were very low-key.
Mickey Rourke
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.
Mickey Rourke
I spent a lot of years trying to beat the system and, in the end, the system kicked my behind good.
Mickey Rourke
I always knew I’d accomplish something very special — like robbing a bank perhaps.
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Mickey Rourke Quotes #21:
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.
Mickey Rourke
Women are much stronger than men. When a woman says enough is enough, which means enough is enough. Man will always lie at her feet in the hope of return. I was lying. And somehow happy.
Mickey Rourke
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.
Mickey Rourke
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.
Mickey Rourke
I couldn’t direct traffic. It’s hard enough just acting.
Mickey Rourke
Wrestlers are all pretty busted-up by the ends of their careers.
Mickey Rourke
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
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Originally published at https://motiveex.com on December 10, 2020.
