I don't have many Hollywood friends anyway; I thought with my ability I didn't need to make those kind of relationships, but… — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
Mitch Glazer and I went to high school together, and his mother was my English teacher for two years. She was my… — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
Change for me was really hard because I had built myself up to be a certain kind of man my whole life,… — Mickey Rourke Copy Share 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… — Mickey Rourke Copy Share 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… — Mickey Rourke Copy Share 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… — Mickey Rourke Copy Share 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… — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of years trying to beat the system and, in the end, the system kicked my behind good. — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
In order to understand the stock market we have to realize that, like anything enormous and inert, it's fundamentally stable, and, like anything emotion-driven,… — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing. — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
I never look backwards. I have always been an athlete. I boxed before I acted. — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
Wrestling and boxing is like Ping-Pong and rugby. There's no connection. — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
Where I come from, being a hard man is being able to take a good beating and then get back up again and carry… — Mickey Rourke Copy Share 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.” quote by Mickey Rourke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a14/mickey-rourke-4846_bits_when-i-did-sean-penn-s-movie-i-think-i-w_2611764.jpg)
