American - Actor | September 16, 1956 -
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.
Mickey Rourke
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I spent so long studying really hard to become a fine actor, but threw it all away because I got the adulation and the fame so easily.
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I grew up in a gym in Miami, the one where Muhammad Ali trained. I had 142 amateur fights and lost three.
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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.
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A reputation is really hard to live down.
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I spent a lot of years trying to beat the system and, in the end, the system kicked my behind good.
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Sometimes, when a man is alone, that's all you got is your dog.
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Once you've been somebody, really, you have a career and you're a nobody anymore, and you're getting older, you're living what's called a state of shame.
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Wrestling and boxing is like Ping-Pong and rugby. There's no connection.
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My dogs are more important than my family.
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Mitch Glazer and I went to high school together, and his mother was my English teacher for two years. She was my favorite teacher, and I followed Mitch's career as a journalist, so we've kind of kept in touch over the years.
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Being out of work for 13 to 15 years is no walk in the park.
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