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.' Mickey Rourke More Quotes by Mickey Rourke More Quotes From Mickey Rourke I grew up in a gym in Miami, the one where Muhammad Ali trained. I had 142 amateur fights and lost three. Mickey Rourke miamithreefighting I don't mind getting punched in the nose by a guy standing in front of me. It's getting stabbed in the back that I can't handle. Mickey Rourke guynosesmind Comeback is a good word, man. Mickey Rourke good-wordscomebackmen I'm an old broken down piece of meat and I deserve to be all alone . . . Mickey Rourke piecesmeatbroken I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise. Mickey Rourke angercareerswise People are always afraid of the truth. Mickey Rourke people Hey, baby, nobody suffers like the poor. Mickey Rourke heysufferingbaby I always knew I'd accomplish something very special - like robbing a bank perhaps. Mickey Rourke robbingaccomplishspecial 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. Mickey Rourke pay-the-pricepeopleyears I had achieved so much success in my career and then had this spectacular fall from grace that left me unemployed and living in a town, Los Angeles, that is built on envy. Once you fall, people don't really root for you to come back again. I'd go to restaurants where I always had the best table and half the time they wouldn't even let me pay. And then when I stopped making movies, the same places wouldn't even give me a lousy table, never mind the best one! Mickey Rourke careersrootsfall I spent a lot of years trying to beat the system and, in the end, the system kicked my behind good. Mickey Rourke beatstryingyears 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. Mickey Rourke blowbrainneeds 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. Mickey Rourke shut-upactorsmonths Women are much stronger than men. When a woman says enough is enough, which means enough is enough. Man will always lie at her feet in the hope of return. I was lying. And somehow happy. Mickey Rourke menmeanlying A reputation is really hard to live down. Mickey Rourke reputationhard Julian Schnabel painted a picture that he dedicated to my character in Rumble Fish. It was called The Motorcycle Boy. I remember when he brought it over to me at the Mayflower Hotel [in New York] years ago. This is when you and I knew each other. Mickey Rourke new-yorkcharacterboys Where I come from, being a hard man is being able to take a good beating and then get back up again and carry on fighting. Mickey Rourke ablefightingmen I don't care what Tom Cruise says about therapy. Mickey Rourke cruisetherapycare 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. Mickey Rourke trustrealmen When I did Sean Penn’s movie, I think I was living in, like, a $500-a-month room, and someone called me up or bumped into me and asked me if I’d come up to work for a day. That sort of got me going a little bit. But it wasn’t until Sin City [2005] that I kind of got back into the game. Mickey Rourke sin-citygamesthinking
