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
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.
acting activities bold choices school teach
You know, back in acting school they always teach you, 'Make bold choices and look for activities that are interesting.'
far few men people seen
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.
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.
sports hurt wrestling
Since I knew wrestling was all choreographed, I thought, Oh, they don't get hurt at all. But I walked away with a renewed respect for the sport. Because I was very ignorant before - I knew nothing about it.
film aspiration
I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that.
long actors study
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
boxers camps isolated
Boxers are very isolated - or isolated within their own camps.
play stuff dozen
I probably did a dozen plays, like Off-Off-Broadway stuff.