Mickey Rourke
Mickey Rourke
Philip Andre Rourke Jr., known professionally as Mickey Rourke, is an American actor, screenwriter, and retired boxer, who has appeared primarily as a leading man in drama, action, and thriller films...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth16 September 1952
CitySchenectady, NY
CountryUnited States of America
I started out fighting before I was acting, actually, then got hurt and got into the acting.
guys love played playing
I used to love playing football in high school. I played with the same guys for 10 years.
channel movies throw
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 have to take things so serious, you know.
movies sell
You can be mediocre, the way most actors are, and you can still be a top movie star, even if your movies are boring and predictable. All you have to do is know how to sell yourself, let yourself be manufactured.
politics
Winning an Oscar ain't about performance. There's a lot of politics involved.
means
The acclaim I'm getting for 'The Wrestler' means everything in the world to me. But it also means I can't take my foot off the gas pedal.
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When I first met Alan Parker, who directed 'Angel Heart,' he'd heard so many horror stories about me that he was literally scared to death of me. Right away, he sat me down and said, 'I'm very scared of you. I've heard you're a very bad boy.'
life maybe might
I don't have many Hollywood friends anyway; I thought with my ability I didn't need to make those kind of relationships, but maybe I should have done. Might have made my life easier!
I'd just as soon do a big-budget movie as an independent one.
analyze tried
She tried to analyze me once but she got too scared.
boyfriend worth
She wasn't worth the effort. Her boyfriend can have her back.
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Mitch Glazer and I went to high school together, and his mother was my English teacher for two years. She was my favorite teacher, and I followed Mitch's career as a journalist, so we've kind of kept in touch over the years.
kept life party success worked
I didn't have a childhood, really, because I worked my whole life and... other reasons. So when I had some success, I went ballistic. That was my childhood, and the party kept going on.
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Doing physical or fighting scenes in movies is really the hardest part, so wherever I could have the stunt guy do it, I'd prefer to have him do it.