Mickey Rourke Quotes

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.

What I’ve got to do now is let them judge me for who I am as an actor and not for my notoriety.

It was the most fun I’ve ever had on a movie. It was one of the happiest times in my life. I was living in New York, and I really enjoyed acting at the time. Also, it’s funny because that was also the time when I went downhill.

I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing.

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.

I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that.