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
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.
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
special robbing accomplish
I always knew I'd accomplish something very special - like robbing a bank perhaps.
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.
eye diners looks
If you look closely at some scenes in Diner, my eyes look like Dracula's.
gets hot selling warehouse work
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.