140 Quotes by Mickey Rourke

I never look backwards. I have always been an athlete. I boxed before I acted.

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.

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

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.

I grew up in a gym in Miami, the one where Muhammad Ali trained. I had 142 amateur fights and lost three.

I still work out most days. When I do it, I go full blast five or six days a week, two to three hours a day. I enjoy it. It's therapeutic for me.

I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing.

All that prosthetic makeup drains you. By the time it's lunch, you're done.

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.