Mickey Rourke (Philip Andre "Mickey" Rourke Jr.) Quotes

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.

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• My only career strategy is to just not do anything that I have to be completely ashamed of afterwards! Whether it's TV or movies, I feel lucky to be working.

  

  Dan Byrd
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• The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.

  

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• It's a notion that career-oriented women often neglect their families. But we should cut them some flak; these women are doing everything for the sake of family so that it progresses. I believe when kids see their mothers working hard, they take up responsibilities at home and are far more well-turned out than other children.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
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• No one becomes an expert in a new career overnight, even if you are coming from another career where you were established and experienced.

  

  Jack Canfield
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• When I started training to fight, it was more out of boredom than anything. I was looking for more things to do. I started with boxing, and my coaches told me I had a lot of potential and that I should consider making it a career. I was like, 'Whatever.' I was just 15 at the time, and I never imagined something like that.

  

  Paige VanZant
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• I've had more ups than downs in my career. All you can do is keep working. You still have to take enjoyment out of what you're doing, and things will turn, and my smile has always been there. In good moments and bad.

  

  Eden Hazard
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• I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg.

  

  Jack Klugman
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• I spend 90 percent of my time saying no, and my accountant yells at me for it, but when I started in this business, I wanted my career to have legs.

  

  Omar Epps
  • Time
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• I've had people break into profiles on my Internet; they got into my accounts. This was at the beginning of my career. There is a fair bit of alarm when something like that happens. It definitely bothered me a lot at the time. But you move on from these things.

  

  Laura Donnelly
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• I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Work
  • Career
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• Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.

  

  Lana Del Rey
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• Who can worry about a career? Have a life.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Career
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• My whole 'WWE' career has been rebuilding myself and finding the confidence that I once had. It's been one hell of a journey. There have been times I felt like the prodigal son because I left wrestling and abandoned this thing that I loved.

  

  Becky Lynch
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• Initially, I wanted to do films with A-list actors when I was struggling. I was hoping that I could also get that platform where I'm launched with Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan or Aamir Khan... and with them my career could also start, but it didn't happen. And then came 'Queen.'

  

  Kangana Ranaut
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• The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.

  

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• It is a career that can be enhanced or destroyed by success.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
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• My parents are very good parents and have already said that they will look after me until the end of my skating career.

  

  Patrick Chan
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• The challenge is maintaining your interest over a long career, as opposed to pushing hard with no longevity. I'm surprised that I've been able to dance as long as I have.

  

  Damian Woetzel
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• I've been in, like, kids' clubs... I've been in the Boom Boom Room in New York, and the kids are going, 'Oh my God, you produced 'Arrested Development?'' They aren't talking about 'A Beautiful Mind' or '24.' It's like the only thing in my whole career was 'Arrested Development,' literally.

  

  Brian Grazer
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• In the India I was growing up in, history wasn't really a wise career option. People would joke and say, 'History's okay, but what's your actual job?' I didn't come from a privileged background and couldn't afford to be irresponsible, so I did the pragmatic thing and did a MBA.

  

  Amish Tripathi
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• I'm not normally the kind of person who holds on to grudges, I'm really not.

  

  Rachel Stevens
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• 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