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
closest
A lot of those who let you down are those who seemed the closest to you.
reputation hard
A reputation is really hard to live down.
choices acting down-and
Acting was never my first choice as a profession, but I came to terms with it when I decided I better buckle down and be the best I can be at it.
makeup lunch done
All that prosthetic makeup drains you. By the time it's lunch, you're done.
years parks walks
Being out of work for 13 to 15 years is no walk in the park.
hands actresses woods
Evan Rachel Wood is the best actress I've ever worked with, hands down.
hollywood boxes
Hollywood's famous for putting you in a box.
special robbing accomplish
I always knew I'd accomplish something very special - like robbing a bank perhaps.
long actors study
I spent so long studying really hard to become a fine actor, but threw it all away because I got the adulation and the fame so easily
film aspiration
I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that.
names fighter wanted
I wanted to change my name to Romeo Florentino. Romeo Florentino - that's a good fighter's name.
thinking games cities
When I did Sean Penn's movie, I think I was living in, like, a $500-a-month room, and someone called me up or bumped into me and asked me if I'd come up to work for a day. That sort of got me going a little bit. But it wasn't until Sin City [2005] that I kind of got back into the game.
fighting europe names
I tried to change my name for the fights, but the only way they could pay me money was if I used my own name. I wanted to change my name to, like, Romeo something-or-other, and they said, "No, we can't do that. We've got to use Mickey Rourke." Because they paid me a lot of money to go over to Europe and Asia to fight.
memories loss fighting
I started having some memory-loss issues. I took a neurological exam, and they said, "Well, you should stop fighting now." And I kept begging them for one more fight, one more fight, and the doctor said to me, "How much are they going to pay you?" I was supposed to fight three more times, and one would have been for a cruiser belt. So I said, "I just need to fight three more times." He said, "Listen, you can't even get hit in the head one more time, your neuro is so bad."