Mickey Rourke Quotes

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.

Mickey Rourke

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 16, 1956

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My first job in the film business was working as a production assistant, and then a production manager on a documentary about Townes Van Zandt.

Jeff Nichols

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Close friends, or those in my pay, sometimes call me a literary polymath, while others say that I'm just a shallow dilettante, superficial and breezy, with a faux-naif style.

Michael Dirda

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My legacy as governor was UConn and the cities. This is my passion. When I was governor, I would call Waterbury the center of the universe.

John Rowland

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We are what make up society.

Tom Shadyac

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I don't like permanency. I just like to slip and slide, and in identity, I think that's a very feminine artist's point of view.

Roisin Murphy

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I think if you start to think too much about things that are completely out of control, it will just drive you crazy as an actor.

Matt Bomer

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I've seen how the issues that come across a president's desk are always the hard ones - the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer.

Michelle Obama

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When I wrote those first songs for the Truckers, songs like 'Outfit' and 'Decoration Day,' those were strong songs, very strong songs. But had I been in the position of writing an entire album at that point in time, I don't think the whole album would have been of that kind of quality.

Jason Isbell

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I love Jamaica so much. I've been there so much, and I think it would be great if we could shoot a movie there.

Jonathan Levine

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I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.

Diane Cilento

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What also helps our show is that we never take ourselves seriously.

Drew Carey

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I think comedy and satire are the strongest ways to deal with very serious themes and very painful themes.

Colman Domingo

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