How it works

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.

Mickey Rourke
Not a MindZip member yet
Acting
Europe
Fighting
Job
Years
Random

Explore more quotes

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.
Mickey Rourke
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.
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 always knew I'd accomplish something very special - like robbing a bank perhaps.
Mickey Rourke
It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars.
Mickey Rourke
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.
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
What I've got to do now is let them judge me for who I am as an actor and not for my notoriety.
Mickey Rourke
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.
Mickey Rourke
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.
Mickey Rourke
I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that.
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
All that prosthetic makeup drains you. By the time it's lunch, you're done.
Mickey Rourke
I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing.
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
I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong.
Mickey Rourke
A lot of the stuff I am now seeing is edgy, raw kinda material.
Mickey Rourke
It was either therapy or die.
Mickey Rourke
A lot of those who let you down are those who seemed the closest to you.
Mickey Rourke
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.
Mickey Rourke
As time goes by and you're getting older and stuff like that - getting older sucks. You know, I hear all this crap about, 'Oh, you can age with dignity.' Really?
Mickey Rourke
Bounty hunters these days - because everything is so sophisticated with computers and surveillance, it doesn't have to be a one-man-army-type guy who goes in and kicks a door down.
Mickey Rourke
Evan Rachel Wood is the best actress I've ever worked with, hands down.
Mickey Rourke
Hollywood's famous for putting you in a box.
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 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.
Mickey Rourke
I don't care what Tom Cruise says about therapy.
Mickey Rourke
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
I grew up in a gym in Miami, the one where Muhammad Ali trained. I had 142 amateur fights and lost three.
Mickey Rourke
I have a really good relationship with a lot of designers. I like Gaultier, Billionaire and Cavalli.
Mickey Rourke
I love the first Godfather movie, part one. And two.
Mickey Rourke
I loved my mother, but I don't like her.
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 spent a lot of years trying to beat the system and, in the end, the system kicked my behind good.
Mickey Rourke
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.
Mickey Rourke
I started out fighting before I was acting, actually, then got hurt and got into the acting.
Mickey Rourke
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.
Mickey Rourke
I'm not gonna rush out and see the next 'Batman;' I'm not big on formula movies.
Mickey Rourke
It's no fun being a loser. Trust me.
Mickey Rourke
My dogs are more important than my family.
Mickey Rourke
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.
Mickey Rourke
People are always afraid of the truth.
Mickey Rourke
People need medicine and they need therapists.
Mickey Rourke
Some of your worst gangsters are guys who were very low-key.
Mickey Rourke
Sometimes, when a man is alone, that's all you got is your dog.
Mickey Rourke
The hardest thing in life to do is to change.
Mickey Rourke
To me, everything's competition.
Mickey Rourke