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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 had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job.
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I had gotten injured during the boxing, and I was supposed to take several months off because I'd had a couple of concussions, and so I sort of just left the boxing and got into the acting by accident.
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Hey, baby, nobody suffers like the poor.
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I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong.
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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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I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that.
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If you look closely at some scenes in Diner, my eyes look like Dracula's.
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I couldn't direct traffic. It's hard enough just acting.
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Being out of work for 13 to 15 years is no walk in the park.
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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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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.
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Evan Rachel Wood is the best actress I've ever worked with, hands down.
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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.
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When I was like 12 or 13,Muhammad Ali gave me a pair of his trunks that were white satin with gold stripes. They were full of blood, and my mother threw them away. I think it's the first time I ever cursed at my mother.
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All that prosthetic makeup drains you. By the time it's lunch, you're done.
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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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I thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong.
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A couple of guys won Academy Awards for the things that I turned down. Today, after coming to terms with everything, after being in therapy for a long time-there are areas where I will compromise.
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All I am hoping for is to be able to work-I think my best work is still ahead of me-I think all that I have been through in the last several years have only made me a better, more interesting actor.
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