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It was either therapy or die.
Mickey Rourke
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Mickey Rourke
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: September 16
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Acting was never my first choice as a profession, but I came to terms with it when I decided I better buckle down and be the best I can be at 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 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 have a really good relationship with a lot of designers. I like Gaultier, Billionaire and Cavalli.
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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 don't care what Tom Cruise says about therapy.
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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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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 have so many boxing gloves around my house that I would get them confused with other gloves.
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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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Wrestlers are all pretty busted-up by the ends of their careers.
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I thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong.
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Evan Rachel Wood is the best actress I've ever worked with, hands down.
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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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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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A lot of the stuff I am now seeing is edgy, raw kinda material.
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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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Boxers are very isolated - or isolated within their own camps.
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