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
hey world empires
It's always been the case that you have the really rich, and the really poor. But hey, look, all the great empires have their periods where they rule the world, and then they crumble.
couple boxing acting
I had gotten injured during the boxing, and I was supposed to take several months off because I'd had a couple of concussions, and so I sort of just left the boxing and got into the acting by accident.
new-york thinking years
I think the first year and a half that I was in New York I was having trouble just living somewhere. Back in them days the city was a lot different than it is now.
eye diners looks
If you look closely at some scenes in Diner, my eyes look like Dracula's.
play stuff dozen
I probably did a dozen plays, like Off-Off-Broadway stuff.
two house three
By the end of the shoot [of Wrestler], my trainer was pushing me up three flights of stairs to my house and holding my arm like I was an old cripple. I had three MRIs in the first two months of working on the film. I felt like it really was over by the time we started shooting the movie.
years trying beats
I spent a lot of years trying to beat the system and, in the end, the system kicked my behind good.
dog men sometimes
Sometimes, when a man is alone, that's all you got is your dog.
stars actors making-money
It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars.
athlete looks backwards
I never look backwards. I have always been an athlete. I boxed before I acted.
years pay-the-price people
I behaved worse than anybody for 15 years, and you have to pay the price for that. I used to blame other people, then therapy made me realise I had to change.
careers busted ends
Wrestlers are all pretty busted-up by the ends of their careers.
two work-out three
I still work out most days. When I do it, I go full blast five or six days a week, two to three hours a day. I enjoy it. It's therapeutic for me.
order emotion realizing
In order to understand the stock market we have to realize that, like anything enormous and inert, it's fundamentally stable, and, like anything emotion-driven, it's volatile as hell. Got that? Me neither.