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Mickey Rourke Biography

Philip Andre "Mickey" Rourke Jr. (/rʊərk/; born September 16, 1952), is an American actor, screenwriter, and retired boxer, who has appeared primarily as a leading man in drama, action, and thriller films.

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

Actors, Automatically, Making Money, Money, Stars

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. "

Fighting, Having, Head, Listen, Loss, Memories

In boxing, you don't know what's going to happen. In wrestling, it's already prearranged.

Already, Boxing, Happens, Prearranged, Wrestling

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.

Pay, Pay The Price, People, Therapy, Used, Years

Hey, baby, nobody suffers like the poor.

Baby, Hey, Poor, Suffering

People are always afraid of the truth.

Afraid, People, Truth

I have a really good relationship with a lot of designers. I like Gaultier, Billionaire and Cavalli.

Billionaire, Designer, Designers, Gaultier, Good Relationship

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

Closely, Diners, Eye, Eyes, Look, Looks

I probably did a dozen plays, like Off-Off-Broadway stuff.

Broadway, Dozen, Like, Play, Stuff

It was either therapy or die.

Die, Dies, Therapy

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.

Case, Hey, Looks, Periods, Rich, World

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.

Acting, Boxing, Couple, Months, Several, Supposed

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

Accomplish, Bank, Perhaps, Robbing, Special

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. '

Crazy, Nodded, People, Years

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

Acted, Athlete, Backwards, Boxed, Look, Looks

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

Alone, Broken, Down, Meat, Pieces

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.

Actors, Cosy, Flavour, Months, Shut, Shut Up

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.

Day, Hours, Three, Two, Week, Work Out

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.

Built, Come, Men, Real, Things, Trust

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.

Ali, Blood, Mother, Satin, Thinking, White

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