Mickey Rourke Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I loved my mother, but I don't like her.”

“I spent a lot of years trying to beat the system and, in the end, the system kicked my behind good.”

“People are always afraid of the truth.”

“Some of your worst gangsters are guys who were very low-key.”

“The hardest thing in life to do is to change.”

“When you're young, working in a warehouse or selling hot dogs, you look at work - at acting - as something precious. It gets you out of the stink.”

“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.”

“You want to earn respect in your old age. You want to walk into a restaurant and have people say: 'There's Mickey Rourke. He was great in 'The Wrestler.' You don't want them jumping out of windows.”

“Hollywood's famous for putting you in a box.”

“I don't care what Tom Cruise says about therapy.”