Mickey Rourke Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“All that prosthetic makeup drains you. By the time it's lunch, you're done.”

“As time goes by and you're getting older and stuff like that - getting older sucks. You know, I hear all this crap about, 'Oh, you can age with dignity.' Really?”

“When I first met Alan Parker, who directed 'Angel Heart,' he'd heard so many horror stories about me that he was literally scared to death of me. Right away, he sat me down and said, 'I'm very scared of you. I've heard you're a very bad boy.'”

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

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

“I don't mind getting punched in the nose by a guy standing in front of me. It's getting stabbed in the back that I can't handle.”

“Sometimes, when a man is alone, that's all you got is your dog.”

“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.”

“Wrestling and boxing is like Ping-Pong and rugby. There's no connection.”