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I never look backwards. I have always been an athlete. I boxed before I acted.
Mickey Rourke
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Mickey Rourke
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: September 16
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I think the first year and a half that I was in New York I was having trouble just living somewhere. Back in them days the city was a lot different than it is now.
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Wrestlers are all pretty busted-up by the ends of their careers.
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I trained like an animal, but the thing is focus and concentration. When the bell rings it's like when the little red light goes on over the camera. And I can usually nail my lines on the first or second take because I'm right there.
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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.
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It was either therapy or die.
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Usually if you read a screenplay, no matter who's writing it, the bad guy is always written as a one-dimensional bad guy.
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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.
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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.
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I never knew my father, and I'd hate to repeat that kind of cycle with my own children, because I'd also want to be there for them no matter what.
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I get a call, and it's Howard Bingham, and he's got the champ on the line.Muhammad Ali didn't remember me from being a kid, but he was going, Yeah, you're in bed, and you want your mama with you . . . It really helped so much. He spent 15 or 20 minutes on the phone with me. That's a memory that I'll always cherish.
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Being out of work for 13 to 15 years is no walk in the park.
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[The tension] between the Christians and Muslims goes back to the Crusades, doesn't it? It's too easy to blame everything on one guy. These are unpredictable, dangerous times, and I don't think that anyone really knows quite what to do.
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It's always been the case that you have the really rich, and the really poor. But hey, look, all the great empires have their periods where they rule the world, and then they crumble.
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A lot of the stuff I am now seeing is edgy, raw kinda material.
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I couldn't direct traffic. It's hard enough just acting.
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I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that.
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People ask me about that all the time. They say, Did you ever think of directing? And I say, It's completely out of the question.
Mickey Rourke
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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.
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