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
politics
Winning an Oscar ain't about performance. There's a lot of politics involved.
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.
alan bad death directed heard horror literally met sat scared stories
When I first met Alan Parker, who directed 'Angel Heart,' he'd heard so many horror stories about me that he was literally scared to death of me. Right away, he sat me down and said, 'I'm very scared of you. I've heard you're a very bad boy.'
age crap goes hear older stuff time
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?
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.
fun trust
It's no fun being a loser. Trust me.
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.
hollywood boxes
Hollywood's famous for putting you in a box.
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.
actors months shut-up
Actors should shut up about politics. They tend to be ill-informed finger-pointers who just cosy up to some flavour of-the-month liberal.