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Mickey Rourke Quotes
• Come over here, tough guy. I'll show you who I am.
• I thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong.
• A lot of the stuff I am now seeing is edgy, raw kinda material.
• 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.
• All that prosthetic makeup drains you. By the time it's lunch, you're done.
• Comeback is a good word, man.
• Doing physical or fighting scenes in movies is really the hardest part, so wherever I could have the stunt guy do it, I'd prefer to have him do it.
• It was either therapy or die.
• She tried to analyze me once but she got too scared.
• I always knew I'd accomplish something very special - like robbing a bank perhaps.
• They have great strip clubs in Austin, Texas, so I would have my fan club... I would have the girls come up and we would, ah... talk.
• What I've got to do now is let them judge me for who I am as an actor and not for my notoriety.
• 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.
• I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong.
• 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.
• 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.
• She wasn't worth the effort. Her boyfriend can have her back.
• I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.
• It was the most fun I've ever had on a movie. It was one of the happiest times in my life. I was living in New York, and I really enjoyed acting at the time. Also, it's funny because that was also the time when I went downhill.
• It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars.
• 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.
• I had some things I had to fix. It took me 14 years to do it. But it was never really fun back in the day to work with directors who were a lot older and were like authoritarian and talking to you like that.
• I never look backwards. I have always been an athlete. I boxed before I acted.
• I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing.
• I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that.
Mickey Rourke Filmography
2009 - The Informers
2009 - The Wrestlers
2008 - Killshot
1996 - Stormbreaker
1992 - Domino
1992 - Sin City
1992 - Man On Fire
1991 - Once Upon a Time in Mexico
1990 - Masked and Anonymous
1987 - Spun
1986 - Picture Claire
1984 - The Follow
1984 - The Pledge
1982 - They Crawl
1980 - Get Carter
1980 - Animal Factory
1979 - Shades
1978 - Shergar
1976 - Cousin Joey
1975 - Out in Fifty
1974 - Point Blank
1974 - Thursday
1972 - Thicker Than Blood
1971 - Buffalo '66
1970 - The Rainmaker
1969 - Another 9 1/2 Weeks
1976 - Double Team
1975 - Bullet
1974 - Exit in Red
1974 - Fall Time
1972 - F.T.W.
1971 - White Sands
1970 - Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
1969 - Desperate Hours
1972 - Wild Orchid
1971 - Johnny Handsome
1970 - Francesco
1969 - Homeboy
1972 - Barfly
1971 - A Prayer for the Dying
1970 - Angel Heart
1969 - 9½ Weeks
1970 - Year Of The Dragon
1969 - Eureka
1972 - The Pope of Greenwich Village
1971 - Rumble Fish
1970 - Diner
1969 - Body Heat
1970 - Fade To Black
1969 - Heaven's Gate
1968 - 1941
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