Rourke Quotes

I trained like an animal, but the thing is focus and concentration. When the bell rings it's like when the little red light goes on over the camera. And I can usually nail my lines on the first or second take because I'm right there. ~ Mickey Rourke

I looked down at my shoes. I hated it when I opened my mouth and my crazy fell out. ~ Stacey Rourke

I never wanted to be Mickey Rourke. I don't think he did either. ~ Paul Neilan

It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars. ~ Mickey Rourke

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. ~ Mickey Rourke

The odds are not in our favor. ~ Stacey Rourke

I didn't know if it was possible to kick someone hard enough to knock the cocky out of 'em, but for Rowan I was willing to try. ~ Stacey Rourke

Purring wasn't going to be an issue if he kept looking at me like that. I was going to have a stroke. ~ Stacey Rourke

Farran studied his new ally, his gaze glittering. "You have no idea." After another moment, he asked, "Why did you do it?"
Arobynn's attention drifted back to the wagon, already a small dot in the rolling foothills above Rifthold. "Because I don't like sharing my belongings. ~ Sarah J. Maas

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. ~ Mickey Rourke

Whole phases of comedy have become empty; the comic rejoinder has become every man's tool. ~ Constance Rourke

What a shame that the current owner of the Vaults, a former underling of Rourke Farran and a dealer of flesh and opiates, had accidentally run into her knives. Repeatedly. ~ Sarah J. Maas

In Hollywood, you're always playing roles ... It's like going through the motions. But in real life, it's like, you gotta take care of business. It's not just the movies. ~ Mickey Rourke

The raw and natural sounds of Aero music don't subtract from it's beauty, instead it creates a rich soundscape for the musician to create within. ~ Jim O Rourke

I don't care what Tom Cruise says about therapy. ~ Mickey Rourke

I love Mickey Rourke. I think he's an all-American classic. He's great. ~ Bridget Everett

It's no fun being a loser. Trust me. ~ Mickey Rourke

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. ~ Mickey Rourke

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. ~ Mickey Rourke

I had learned classical guitar when I was a kid, and I embraced it, and apparently I got good at it. ~ Andy Rourke

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.' ~ Mickey Rourke

Why? Why are you asking me out?"
His expression was equal parts amusement and confusion. "Because if I don't ask ya the chance of ya actually showin' up on the date in highly unlikely, isn't it?"
An abrupt--and incredibly loud--laugh erupted out of me. "True. But why? Why would you ask out the freaky purring girl?"
"Yar laugh is amazin'." He grinned. Another wave of heat rushed through me. "And because from the moment I laid eyes on ya I knew there was somethin' different about ya. The purrin' just supported the theory. So, would ya like to go out with me?"
"Yes, I'd like to. Go on a date. With you. Please."
Smooth, huh? ~ Stacey Rourke

I'm an old broken down piece of meat and I deserve to be all alone ... ~ Mickey Rourke

I was a big Mickey Rourke fan in his first incarnation. I thought that at the time he was America's greatest screen actor. ~ Jamie Sives

I get a call, and it's Howard Bingham, and he's got the champ on the line.Muhammad Ali didn't remember me from being a kid, but he was going, "Yeah, you're in bed, and you want your mama with you ... " It really helped so much. He spent 15 or 20 minutes on the phone with me. That's a memory that I'll always cherish. ~ Mickey Rourke

Where I come from, being a hard man is being able to take a good beating and then get back up again and carry on fighting. ~ Mickey Rourke

Wrestling and boxing is like Ping-Pong and rugby. There's no connection. ~ Mickey Rourke

People are always afraid of the truth. ~ Mickey Rourke

I love America - I'm not saying that I love Americans. I don't know. It just seems a bit more optimistic. I don't know - in England, if you do something successful, people hate you. Whereas in America, if you do something successful, people will pat you on the back and say, 'Hey, well done.' People are jealous and negative in England. ~ Andy Rourke

Uh, did you run this by Alaina?"
"I tried." Keni gave a little shrug. "But I don't think she heard me. She was busy trying to figure out the "mystical forces" that make the microwave work. ~ Stacey Rourke

Acting was never my first choice as a profession, but I came to terms with it when I decided I better buckle down and be the best I can be at it. ~ Mickey Rourke

I didn't have a childhood, really, because I worked my whole life and ... other reasons. So when I had some success, I went ballistic. That was my childhood, and the party kept going on. ~ Mickey Rourke

It was strange: I never had an interest in school because from an early age I knew the only thing I wanted to do was to play music! So I didn't feel so bad not going into school when I was supposed to be there - why do I need Latin, geography, physical education, etc., and to get beaten on a daily basis? ~ Andy Rourke

She is a sick woman," Mama Rosa argued, standing firm to deny him passage. "In addition to her Horseman ramblings, she also strokes her shoe like a cat, and calls it Madame Persephone. Do you think that will be of help as well? ~ Stacey Rourke

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

As time goes by and you're getting older and stuff like that - getting older sucks. You know, I hear all this crap about, 'Oh, you can age with dignity.' Really? ~ Mickey Rourke

Humor bears the closest relation to emotion, either bubbling up as from a deep and happy wellspring, or in an opposite fashion rising like a re-birth of feeling from dead levels after turmoil. ~ Constance Rourke

A lot of those who let you down are those who seemed the closest to you. ~ Mickey Rourke

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

I love the first Godfather movie, part one. And two. ~ Mickey Rourke

I wanted to change my name to Romeo Florentino. Romeo Florentino - that's a good fighter's name. ~ Mickey Rourke

I remember, my mom, she's lived in Spain for about thirty years, and we were playing the Royal Albert Hall, and she was with some friends from New York. Morrissey came out with the sign 'The Queen is Dead,' and my mom's friends are like, 'Oh my God.' They took it literally. ~ Andy Rourke

Some of your worst gangsters are guys who were very low-key. ~ Mickey Rourke

At certain moments in life, reflection is mandatory. I found being squeezed in the scaly claw of a three story dragon to be one of them. ~ Stacey 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.' ~ Mickey Rourke

Change for me was really hard because I had built myself up to be a certain kind of man my whole life, as men are where I come from. I thought I got to handle things different that's gonna make me feel like a real pussy. For me it was hard to turn the other cheek. Even though it's a stronger choice. It was very hard to make the change, but I had to in order to survive. Otherwise they would have won. ~ Mickey Rourke

Being out of work for 13 to 15 years is no walk in the park. ~ Mickey Rourke

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

He was a gorgeous testament to the male gender, and I was an average looking gal that could bench press a Volkswagen. Nothing good could come of this. ~ Stacey Rourke

My very first job was selling pop off the back of a wagon. Then I went to work in a timber yard to save up for my bass amp and joined The Smiths. ~ Andy Rourke

I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong. ~ Mickey Rourke

I don't have many Hollywood friends anyway; I thought with my ability I didn't need to make those kind of relationships, but maybe I should have done. Might have made my life easier! ~ Mickey Rourke

An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten. ~ Constance Rourke

Dinner, as friends. Where I don't expect you to pay or hold doors and you don't expect make-up or sex."
"I'll be rude, and you'll be purposely homely. It'll be magical," Noah laughed. ~ Stacey Rourke

Back in the days of the Smiths, when we first started touring England - this is, like, 1984 - there were these two girls. They were literally vicar's daughters, and they used to follow us to every gig, no matter where we went. ~ Andy Rourke

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." ~ Mickey Rourke

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

Rourke was the Grim Reaper with a hard-on. ~ Susan Wiggs

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. ~ Mickey Rourke

With an easy grin he peered up at me. It took every ounce of self-control I had not to stare slack-jawed into his eyes. They gleamed like freshly polished emeralds, speckled with tiny flecks of gold. They were so pretty. Almost hypnotic...
That's right about the time when I realized he had said something. I missed it because I was too busy gawking at him. Oh, crap! Did he order? Introduce himself? Ask me to marry him? Request a restraining order? I have no idea!
How do I fix this and not come off like a total loser?
"Huh?"
Yeah, no. That wasn't it. ~ Stacey Rourke

I started having some memory-loss issues. I took a neurological exam, and they said, "Well, you should stop fighting now." And I kept begging them for one more fight, one more fight, and the doctor said to me, "How much are they going to pay you?" I was supposed to fight three more times, and one would have been for a cruiser belt. So I said, "I just need to fight three more times." He said, "Listen, you can't even get hit in the head one more time, your neuro is so bad." ~ Mickey Rourke

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. ~ Mickey Rourke

I've been with a lot of women, but who's counting? It's nothing I'm proud of. It's a physical need. Sometimes afterwards I just want to blow my brains out, it's so meaningless. ~ Mickey Rourke

When I did Sean Penn's movie, I think I was living in, like, a $500-a-month room, and someone called me up or bumped into me and asked me if I'd come up to work for a day. That sort of got me going a little bit. But it wasn't until Sin City [2005] that I kind of got back into the game. ~ 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. ~ Mickey Rourke

When I was a teenager, the actors I was really into were Mickey Rourke and Sean Penn. I saw 'Rumble Fish' on my 16th birthday, and around the same time, it was 'Falcon and the Snowman' and 'Bad Boys' from Sean Penn. ~ Aidan Gillen

It was either therapy or die. ~ Mickey Rourke

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. ~ Mickey Rourke

I behaved worse than anybody for 15 years, and you have to pay the price for that. I used to blame other people, then therapy made me realise I had to change. ~ Mickey Rourke

I always knew I'd accomplish something very special - like robbing a bank perhaps. ~ Mickey Rourke

Women are much stronger than men. When a woman says enough is enough, which means enough is enough. Man will always lie at her feet in the hope of return. I was lying. And somehow happy. ~ Mickey Rourke

There is something deliciously melancholy and haunting about rusting roller coasters, faded fiberglass facades, ferris wheels missing two or three cars, the gradual decay of something meant to be bright and cheerful. -Abandoned Amusement Parks

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. -Edgar Allan Poe

The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy. -Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

I'll give you another instance: you know how everybody's into weirdness right now?... A lot o' people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a bunch o' unconnected incidents 'n things. They don't realize that there's this, like, lattice o' coincidence that lays on top o' everything. Give you an example; show you what I mean: suppose you're thinkin' about a plate o' shrimp. Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin' for one, either. It's all part of a cosmic unconciousness. -Tracey Walter "Miller", Repo Man

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead. -Mickey Rourke "Henry", Barfly

There is nothing about me. I exist only in the surface of what I create. I am slowly losing my mind. I am form over function. I am a hollow space with a shiny exterior - I can only reflect what I'm shown. I am mortified to be human and it upsets me greatly that, one ~ Rust Cohle True Detective

I just got told off by a demon. Hello, rock-bottom. We meet at last. ~ Stacey Rourke

I thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong. ~ Mickey Rourke

When you're young, working in a warehouse or selling hot dogs, you look at work - at acting - as something precious. It gets you out of the stink. ~ Mickey Rourke

[The tension] between the Christians and Muslims goes back to the Crusades, doesn't it? It's too easy to blame everything on one guy. These are unpredictable, dangerous times, and I don't think that anyone really knows quite what to do. ~ Mickey Rourke

Edward Rourke is the most exciting man I've never met. ~ Emma Chase

Evan Rachel Wood is the best actress I've ever worked with, hands down. ~ Mickey Rourke

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

If you look closely at some scenes in Diner, my eyes look like Dracula's. ~ Mickey Rourke

I have so many boxing gloves around my house that I would get them confused with other gloves. ~ Mickey Rourke

Mickey [Rourke] one time just basically drove off in the picture car that we were driving in. For my amusement. It was either to kidnap me or for my amusement. ~ Nat Wolff

I loved my mother, but I don't like her. ~ Mickey Rourke

I spent a lot of years trying to beat the system and, in the end, the system kicked my behind good. ~ Mickey Rourke

Soph, I really don't think this is a good idea. I'm at a point in my life where dating is more hazardous than helpful."
She held her hand up and made it move like a chattering puppet. "Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Say what you want. We had a deal. I picked a guy for you to talk to. Now you're gonna sashay your fanny over there and be the very definition of charming and beguiling."
"Shows what you know," I grumbled under my breath. "I don't even know what beguiling means. ~ Stacey Rourke

I'm the worst surfer in California. My balance is off from boxing. ~ Mickey Rourke

Does he train you all to be creepy sociopaths or is that a prerequisite before he hires you ~ Jocelyn Adams

A reputation is really hard to live down. ~ Mickey Rourke

Actors should shut up about politics. They tend to be ill-informed finger-pointers who just cosy up to some flavour of-the-month liberal. ~ Mickey Rourke

When I was like 12 or 13,Muhammad Ali gave me a pair of his trunks that were white satin with gold stripes. They were full of blood, and my mother threw them away. I think it's the first time I ever cursed at my mother. ~ Mickey Rourke

In comedy, reconcilement with life comes at the point when to the tragic sense only an inalienable difference or dissension with life appears. ~ Constance Rourke

We're the Dark Army Glee Club!"
I pressed my fingers against my throbbing temples hard. "The Dark Army what?"
"Glee Club!" Answered Boil Face. "You know, like the TV show? We love it! That's where we got the idea."
"I even shaved my head to look just like Puck!" Eddie tipped his head down and gestured to the mohawk.
I held up a finger to interrupt him. "First of all, Puck is hot. You look nothing like him. Second, are you friggin' kidding me right now?! ~ Stacey Rourke

There is scarcely an aspect of the American character to which humor is not related, few which in some sense it has not governed ... It is a lawless element, full of surprises. ~ Constance Rourke

I fear I must warn you, if that ladle finds it's way to her lips, we will be revisited by my lunch," Ichabod stated without the slightest hint of a jest. "And mine will provide it company," Rip seconded. ~ Stacey Rourke

A cemetery?" I chuckle, but the pitch is a bit higher than I expected. "At night? With a full moon? Um ... did you see any, uh, zombies, you, while you were there?"
Shiko blinks at me a few times. "No"
I slump in relief. "Thank God. I mean, I don't want to be the first to die. The funny guy always dies first, for shock value, you know. Rourke would get killed next, because it's be a heroic sacrifice or something." I motion to Shiko. "You'd live, though, unless you had sex."
... Shiko has the look of an addled kitten, complete with head tilt. Rourke sighs and leans toward her, embarrassed.
'You'll have to excuse him. According to his mother he has an irrational fear of something called the zombie apocalypse."
"It's not irrational! ~ Vaughn R. Demont

WelcometoNeighborhoodCafewhatcanIgetforyou?" Nerves made my voice alternately squeaky and hoarse as I rambled at top speed. Oh, to sound normal... ~ Stacey Rourke

Working with the kind of talent that I've gotten to work with, like the cast of Sin City, it makes me think probably more fully dimensionally about what is going on behind their eyes. But I draw the way I draw, and ain't nothing gonna change that. Although, I draw Marv and I think, "Boy, I could throw a little Mickey [Rourke] in there." ~ Frank Miller

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. ~ Mickey Rourke

I've heard some duff Irish accents. The worst must be Mickey Rourke. ~ James Nesbitt

I had achieved so much success in my career and then had this spectacular fall from grace that left me unemployed and living in a town, Los Angeles, that is built on envy. Once you fall, people don't really root for you to come back again. I'd go to restaurants where I always had the best table and half the time they wouldn't even let me pay. And then when I stopped making movies, the same places wouldn't even give me a lousy table, never mind the best one! ~ Mickey Rourke