140 Quotes by Mickey Rourke

When I first met Alan Parker, who directed 'Angel Heart,' he'd heard so many horror stories about me that he was literally scared to death of me. Right away, he sat me down and said, 'I'm very scared of you. I've heard you're a very bad boy.'

I started out fighting before I was acting, actually, then got hurt and got into the acting.

I used to love playing football in high school. I played with the same guys for 10 years.

Sometimes the independent movies can get a little too arty-farty. You watch the IFC Channel and you want to throw up. You don't always have to take things so serious, you know.

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.

They have great strip clubs in Austin, Texas, so I would have my fan club... I would have the girls come up and we would, ah... talk.

There's always going to be a war going on inside of me. That's just, I think, my make-up.

I try to find the right director who won't compromise his or anyone else's integrity, and yet be political enough to give the studio what they want, yet put up a fight to maintain that integrity.

It was the most fun I've ever had on a movie. It was one of the happiest times in my life. I was living in New York, and I really enjoyed acting at the time. Also, it's funny because that was also the time when I went downhill.