Mickey Rourke Quotes

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

Mickey Rourke

• Closest
• Those
• Let Down

To me, everything's competition.

Mickey Rourke

• Competition
• Everything

I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.

Mickey Rourke

• Career
• Anger
• Advantageous

What I've got to do now is let them judge me for who I am as an actor and not for my notoriety.

Mickey Rourke

• Judge
• Actor
• Notoriety

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

• Career
• Shame
• Older

Very few men can fall as far as I have and come back. People see me and it's like they've seen a ghost, like I'm back from the dead.

Mickey Rourke

• Dead
• Ghost
• Comeback

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

• Acting
• Choice
• Profession

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

Mickey Rourke

• Balance
• Young
• Immature

I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job.

Mickey Rourke

• Job
• Acting
• Box

A reputation is really hard to live down.

Mickey Rourke

• Live
• Hard
• Reputation