American - Actor | September 16, 1956 -
It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars.
Mickey Rourke
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What I've got to do now is let them judge me for who I am as an actor and not for my notoriety.
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You can be mediocre, the way most actors are, and you can still be a top movie star, even if your movies are boring and predictable. All you have to do is know how to sell yourself, let yourself be manufactured.
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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.
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I never knew my father, and I'd hate to repeat that kind of cycle with my own children, because I'd also want to be there for them no matter what.
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A lot of the stuff I am now seeing is edgy, raw kinda material.
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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.
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I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing.
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A couple of guys won Academy Awards for the things that I turned down. Today, after coming to terms with everything, after being in therapy for a long time-there are areas where I will compromise.
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It was either therapy or die.
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I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong.
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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.
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