Quotes by Mickey Rourke

About Mickey Rourke:

Philip Andre Rourke, Jr. is an American actor, screenwriter, and retired boxer, who has appeared primarily as a leading man in drama, action, and thriller films.
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I used to love playing football in high school. I played with the same guys for 10 years.

Mickey Rourke

Very few men can fall as far as I have and come back. People see me and it's like they've seen a ghost, like I'm back from the dead.

Mickey Rourke

I'm not gonna rush out and see the next 'Batman;' I'm not big on formula movies.

Mickey Rourke

You can be mediocre, the way most actors are, and you can still be a top movie star, even if your movies are boring and predictable. All you have to do is know how to sell yourself, let yourself be manufactured.

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

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.

Mickey Rourke

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

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

When you're young, working in a warehouse or selling hot dogs, you look at work - at acting - as something precious. It gets you out of the stink.

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

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

Mickey Rourke

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

Mickey Rourke

Author Bio

  • NameMickey Rourke
  • DescriptionAmerican actor, screenwriter and boxer
  • BornSeptember 16, 1956
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Actor; Actor; Boxer; Screenwriter
  • AwardsSaturn Award