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
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.
fighting men able
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 fighting.
care cruise therapy
I don't care what Tom Cruise says about therapy.
feelings way shame
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 abandonment and shame.
immature balance young
I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing.
thinking years beats
I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong.
dog important my-family
My dogs are more important than my family.
animal light focus-and-concentration
I trained like an animal, but the thing is focus and concentration. When the bell rings it's like when the little red light goes on over the camera. And I can usually nail my lines on the first or second take because I'm right there.