Mickey Rourke Quotes

I Tried To Change My Name For The Fights, But The Only Way They Could Pay Me Money Was If I Used My Own Name. I Wanted To Change My Name To, Like, Romeo Something-or-other, And They Said, "no, We Can't Do That. We've Got To Use Mickey Rourke." Because They Paid Me A Lot Of Money To Go Over To Europe And Asia To Fight.

I Have So Many Boxing Gloves Around My House That I Would Get Them Confused With Other Gloves.

I Have A Really Good Relationship With A Lot Of Designers. I Like Gaultier, Billionaire And Cavalli.

My Dogs Are More Important Than My Family.

If You Look Closely At Some Scenes In Diner, My Eyes Look Like Dracula's.

I Probably Did A Dozen Plays, Like Off-off-broadway Stuff.

Evan Rachel Wood Is The Best Actress I've Ever Worked With, Hands Down.

I Started To Shortcircuit Because I Had High Aspirations For The Film. I Never Told Anybody That.

It Was Either Therapy Or Die.

I Was Very Ashamed Of Seeing A Therapist Because I Thought Only Crazy People Went, And Then, After About Nine Years, I Asked Him, 'well, Was I Really Crazy?' And He Nodded And Said, 'you Were But Not Any More.'

I Had Gotten Injured During The Boxing, And I Was Supposed To Take Several Months Off Because I'd Had A Couple Of Concussions, And So I Sort Of Just Left The Boxing And Got Into The Acting By Accident.

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.