Quote

I have a really good relationship with a lot of designers. I like Gaultier, Billionaire and Cavalli.

Mickey Rourke

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mickey Rourke
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: September 16
Actor
Boxer
Character Actor
Film Actor
Film Producer
Model
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Schenectady
New York
Designer
Relationship
Really
Good
Like
Billionaire
Designers

More quotes by Mickey Rourke

Image
I have so many boxing gloves around my house that I would get them confused with other gloves.
Mickey Rourke
Image
All that prosthetic makeup drains you. By the time it's lunch, you're done.
Mickey Rourke
Image
I never look backwards. I have always been an athlete. I boxed before I acted.
Mickey Rourke
Image
Usually if you read a screenplay, no matter who's writing it, the bad guy is always written as a one-dimensional bad guy.
Mickey Rourke
Image
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
Image
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.
Mickey Rourke
Image
Wrestlers are all pretty busted-up by the ends of their careers.
Mickey Rourke
Image
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
Image
I don't care what Tom Cruise says about therapy.
Mickey Rourke
Image
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.
Mickey Rourke
Image
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.
Mickey Rourke
Image
Some of your worst gangsters are guys who were very low-key.
Mickey Rourke
Image
I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that.
Mickey Rourke
Image
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
Image
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.
Mickey Rourke
Image
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.
Mickey Rourke
Image
A lot of the stuff I am now seeing is edgy, raw kinda material.
Mickey Rourke
Image
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.
Mickey Rourke
Image
It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars.
Mickey Rourke
Image
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