140 Quotes by Mickey Rourke

All I am hoping for is to be able to work-I think my best work is still ahead of me-I think all that I have been through in the last several years have only made me a better, more interesting actor.

Since I knew wrestling was all choreographed, I thought, Oh, they don't get hurt at all. But I walked away with a renewed respect for the sport. Because I was very ignorant before - I knew nothing about it.

People ask me about that all the time. They say, “Did you ever think of directing?” And I say, “It’s completely out of the question.”

In order to understand the stock market we have to realize that, like anything enormous and inert, it’s fundamentally stable, and, like anything emotion-driven, it’s volatile as hell. Got that? Me neither.

Bounty hunters these days – because everything is so sophisticated with computers and surveillance, it doesn’t have to be a one-man-army-type guy who goes in and kicks a door down.

Usually if you read a screenplay, no matter who’s writing it, the bad guy is always written as a one-dimensional bad guy.

Sometimes, when a man is alone, that’s all you got is your dog.

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.

It’s always been the case that you have the really rich, and the really poor. But hey, look, all the great empires have their periods where they rule the world, and then they crumble.