Mickey Rourke
Mickey Rourke
Philip Andre Rourke Jr., known professionally as Mickey Rourke, is an American actor, screenwriter, and retired boxer, who has appeared primarily as a leading man in drama, action, and thriller films...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth16 September 1952
CitySchenectady, NY
CountryUnited States of America
mistake hands years
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.
wrestling boxing ping-pong
Wrestling and boxing is like Ping-Pong and rugby. There's no connection.
reputation hard
A reputation is really hard to live down.
makeup lunch done
All that prosthetic makeup drains you. By the time it's lunch, you're done.
writing guy matter
Usually if you read a screenplay, no matter who's writing it, the bad guy is always written as a one-dimensional bad guy.
movies sell
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.
empty room sit
When you lose everything, and I mean everything, you sit there in this empty room in the dark, and the only person who can get you out is you.
fighting europe names
I tried to change my name for the fights, but the only way they could pay me money was if I used my own name. I wanted to change my name to, like, Romeo something-or-other, and they said, "No, we can't do that. We've got to use Mickey Rourke." Because they paid me a lot of money to go over to Europe and Asia to fight.
wrestling boxing knows
In boxing, you don't know what's going to happen. In wrestling, it's already prearranged.
blow brain want
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.
two house three
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.
feelings way shame
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.
immature balance young
I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing.
film aspiration
I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that.