Mickey Rourke

People ask me about that all the time. They say, "Did you ever think of directing?" And I say, "It's completely out…

— Mickey Rourke

Since I knew wrestling was all choreographed, I thought, Oh, they don't get hurt at all. But I walked away with a…

— Mickey Rourke

Hollywood's famous for putting you in a box.

— Mickey Rourke

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

I spent a lot of years trying to beat the system and, in the end, the system kicked my behind good.

— Mickey Rourke

I couldn't direct traffic. It's hard enough just acting.

— Mickey Rourke

In order to understand the stock market we have to realize that, like anything enormous and inert, it's fundamentally stable, and, like…

— Mickey Rourke

I thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong.

— Mickey Rourke

I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing.

— Mickey Rourke

I never look backwards. I have always been an athlete. I boxed before I acted.

— Mickey Rourke

Wrestling and boxing is like Ping-Pong and rugby. There's no connection.

— Mickey Rourke

Where I come from, being a hard man is being able to take a good beating and then get back up again…

— Mickey Rourke

I used to love playing football in high school. I played with the same guys for 10 years.

— Mickey Rourke

Sometimes the independent movies can get a little too arty-farty. You watch the IFC Channel and you want to throw up. You…

— Mickey Rourke

I behaved worse than anybody for 15 years, and you have to pay the price for that. I used to blame other…

— Mickey Rourke

I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that.

— Mickey Rourke

Julian Schnabel painted a picture that he dedicated to my character in Rumble Fish. It was called The Motorcycle Boy. I remember…

— Mickey Rourke

I was very ashamed of seeing a therapist because I thought only crazy people went, and then, after about nine years, I…

— Mickey Rourke

[The tension] between the Christians and Muslims goes back to the Crusades, doesn't it? It's too easy to blame everything on one…

— Mickey Rourke

It was the most fun I've ever had on a movie. It was one of the happiest times in my life. I…

— Mickey Rourke

I trained like an animal, but the thing is focus and concentration. When the bell rings it's like when the little red…

— Mickey Rourke

I don't mind getting punched in the nose by a guy standing in front of me. It's getting stabbed in the back…

— Mickey Rourke

It's no fun being a loser. Trust me.

— Mickey Rourke

Wrestlers are all pretty busted-up by the ends of their careers.

— Mickey Rourke

A lot of the stuff I am now seeing is edgy, raw kinda material.

— Mickey Rourke