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

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.

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• There's certain things as a songwriter that I don't really care to write about, and there are certain things I won't sing about anymore. There are just so many things that I probably thought was OK for me, or have been in the past, that I would never want my son to think was OK.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Past
  • Son
  • Thought

• I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • School
  • College
  • New York

• Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Books

• I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Kid
  • Shot
  • Wrist

• So if Arizona sees the federal government isn't assuming its responsibilities, it creates local laws. But migration and keeping security on the borders is not a local or state issue, it's a federal issue.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Government
  • Security
  • Laws

• Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Writing
  • Heaven
  • Acting

• I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Great
  • Political
  • Pressure

• I was privileged to grow up in Mexico at a time when you could play in the streets. We lived not too far from the ocean, and we would be outside all the time with the neighbours' kids, running free. What better place could there be for a child?

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Time
  • Kids

• The Democrats promised equalizing outcomes through unlimited federal assistance while Republicans offered something that seemed less tangible - the promise of equalizing opportunity through free markets.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Free
  • Opportunity
  • Promise

• I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn't take any ability to hustle.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Game
  • Way
  • Hustle

• The young adult category is particularly interesting to me in terms of science fiction and fantasy tropes.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Science
  • Interesting
  • Me

• Because of the way tech is changing, and becoming cheaper and user-friendly, it's becoming easier to make films cheaply, maintaining quality.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Way
  • Quality
  • Changing

• The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice. It's crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Time
  • Funny

• I don't think I talk to anybody the same way I talk to Moby.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Think
  • Same
  • Talk

• We do not accept or officially recognise Israel. They are occupiers and illegitimate. But our approach is humanitarian. I ask you where is the Soviet Union now - has it been wiped out or not? It vanished without a war. Let the Palestinian people chose. It will happen.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • War

• You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.

  

  Andy Griffith
  • Future
  • Past
  • Young

• Oh no, the dead have risen and they're voting Republican.

  

  Yeardley Smith
  • Dead
  • Republican
  • Voting

• Criticizing people, winding them up, making idiots of them or fooling them doesn't make people with autism laugh. What makes us smile from the inside is seeing something beautiful, or a memory makes us laugh. This generally happens when there's nobody watching us. And at night, on our own, we might burst out laughing underneath the duvet, or roar with later in an empty room ... When we don't need to think about other people or anything else, that's when we wear our aural expressions.

  

  Naoki Higashida
  • Beautiful
  • Night
  • Memories

• It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Perfect

• Just as organic species evolve toward the use of greater densities of a wider variety of free-energy sources in their environment, so human societies develop to access, store, and use in greater densities larger quantities of free energy through the ongoing improvement of their technologies. As a consequence societies, the same as natural systems, tend to grow larger in size, develop more intricate relations among their diverse components, and create more massive and flexible modes of interaction among them.

  

  Ervin Laszlo
  • Environment
  • Create
  • Interaction

• 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