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… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
I never look backwards. I have always been an athlete. I boxed before I acted. — Mickey Rourke Copy Share
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
I used to love playing football in high school. I played with the same guys for 10 years. — Mickey Rourke Copy Share
Sometimes the independent movies can get a little too arty-farty. You watch the IFC Channel and you want to throw up. You don't always… — Mickey Rourke Copy Share
I behaved worse than anybody for 15 years, and you have to pay the price for that. I used to blame other people, then… — Mickey Rourke Copy Share
![“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/i/a14/mickey-rourke-4846_bits_when-i-did-sean-penn-s-movie-i-think-i-w_2611764.jpg)