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
two work-out three
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.
careers busted ends
Wrestlers are all pretty busted-up by the ends of their careers.
years pay-the-price people
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.
athlete looks backwards
I never look backwards. I have always been an athlete. I boxed before I acted.
california boxing balance
I'm the worst surfer in California. My balance is off from boxing.
good-relationship designer billionaire
I have a really good relationship with a lot of designers. I like Gaultier, Billionaire and Cavalli.
years trying beats
I spent a lot of years trying to beat the system and, in the end, the system kicked my behind good.
trust real men
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.
confused boxing house
I have so many boxing gloves around my house that I would get them confused with other gloves.
fun years talking
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.
therapy dies
It was either therapy or die.
talent
I thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong.
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.
army men doors
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.