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
I used to love playing football in high school. I played with the same guys for 10 years. — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
I was very ashamed of seeing a therapist because I thought only crazy people went, and then, after about nine years, I… — 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
All I am hoping for is to be able to work-I think my best work is still ahead of me-I think all… — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
I behaved worse than anybody for 15 years, and you have to pay the price for that. I used to blame other… — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
Years ago I realized that maybe I made mistake, politically, when I turned a lot of that stuff down. I would go… — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
Julian Schnabel painted a picture that he dedicated to my character in Rumble Fish. It was called The Motorcycle Boy. I remember… — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
I think the first year and a half that I was in New York I was having trouble just living somewhere. Back… — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong. — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting… — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
I had some things I had to fix. It took me 14 years to do it. But it was never really fun… — 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
![“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.” quote by Mickey Rourke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8fe/mickey-rourke-4846_boys_julian-schnabel-painted-a-picture-that-h_458915.jpg)
