Mickey Rourke Quotes

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• Change for me was really hard because I had built myself up to be a certain kind of man my whole life, as men are…
• People are always afraid of the truth.
• Hey, baby, nobody suffers like the poor.
• I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.
• 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…
• 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…
• I had some things I had to fix. It took me 14 years to do it. But it was never really fun back in the…
• It was either therapy or die.
• I was very ashamed of seeing a therapist because I thought only crazy people went, and then, after about nine years, I asked him, 'Well,…
• Years ago I realized that maybe I made mistake, politically, when I turned a lot of that stuff down. I would go off to obscure…
• I thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong.
• I always knew I'd accomplish something very special - like robbing a bank perhaps.
• Where I come from, being a hard man is being able to take a good beating and then get back up again and carry on…
• 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…
• I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with a feeling of…
• I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing.
• A lot of the stuff I am now seeing is edgy, raw kinda material.
• Comeback is a good word, man.
• I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong.
• I never look backwards. I have always been an athlete. I boxed before I acted.

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