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
godfather love
I love the first Godfather movie, part one. And two.
children hate father
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 for them no matter what.
good-relationship designer billionaire
I have a really good relationship with a lot of designers. I like Gaultier, Billionaire and Cavalli.
wrestling boxing knows
In boxing, you don't know what's going to happen. In wrestling, it's already prearranged.
army men doors
Bounty hunters these days - because everything is so sophisticated with computers and surveillance, it doesn't have to be a one-man-army-type guy who goes in and kicks a door down.
california boxing balance
I'm the worst surfer in California. My balance is off from boxing.
wrestling boxing ping-pong
Wrestling and boxing is like Ping-Pong and rugby. There's no connection.
trust real men
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 where I come from. I thought I got to handle things different that's gonna make me feel like a real pussy. For me it was hard to turn the other cheek. Even though it's a stronger choice. It was very hard to make the change, but I had to in order to survive. Otherwise they would have won.
writing guy matter
Usually if you read a screenplay, no matter who's writing it, the bad guy is always written as a one-dimensional bad guy.
fun years talking
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 day to work with directors who were a lot older and were like authoritarian and talking to you like that.
therapy dies
It was either therapy or die.
crazy years people
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, was I really crazy?' And he nodded and said, 'You were but not any more.'
mistake hands years
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 places and make movies that six people went to see.
talent
I thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong.