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

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

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• I actually had a really nice guitar as a teenager. I took jazz guitar, so my mom bought me this probably $1,600 guitar. But I got really into garage rock and local bands, and I noticed they played really crappy guitars. So I thought, 'Hey, I should get a crappy guitar, too!'

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Nice
  • Mom
  • Rock

• Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Taken
  • Serious
  • Human

• I always try to make films in such a way that it's hard to imagine how they came to be, or where they came from.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Way
  • Always
  • Try

• After spending 22 years in Ohio, I love everything about New York.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Years
  • New York
  • I Love

• I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart from that issue, I hold that segregation in any part of the body politic is an act of slavery and an act of war.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • War
  • Military
  • Slavery

• My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Fun

• I stopped watching horror movies after I watched 'Candyman' when I was – I don't know, fifteen or something. I remember my sister rented it, 'Candyman,' and it really, really scared me. And so it was only after I found myself in a horror film that I really went back and kind of rediscovered the genre.

  

  Fiona Dourif
  • Remember
  • Movies
  • Sister

• I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Think
  • Way
  • Resignation

• Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • May
  • Director
  • Fact

• Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Words
  • Attention
  • Behavior

• No one in my family is in entertainment. They thought acting was a fun hobby, and when I got a degree, I'd settle down.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Family
  • Fun
  • Thought

• I like auditioning! A lot of people hate it, but I like it.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • People
  • Hate
  • Like

• I think the idea of participation trophies has gotta be a really, really great thing. Kids are under enough pressure as it is without encouraging them to be the best too early.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Think

• I don't read as much as people may expect. In fact, sometimes I feel that I should probably read more, but then I do believe that one of the big problems of our times is that there's too much reading and not enough thinking.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • People
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• What I saw when I was a child was my father who was a pilot, and because of circumstances was thrown into the political system, and all I saw when was small after my grandmother died was my father in constant - constant combat with the system in India, and then I saw him die, actually.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • Father
  • Political
  • Small

• I have 18 cars, but I never had a Rolls-Royce.

  

  Ion Tiriac
  • Never
  • Had

• One thing I struggled with early in my career was the delicate balance between my performance and my identity. When things on the field went well, I was cheerful and felt important. When things went poorly, my countenance and self-concept plummeted, and I was not pleasant to be around.

  

  Benjamin Watson
  • Important
  • Career
  • Balance

• Because grandparents are usually free to love and guide and befriend the young without having to take daily responsibility for them, they can often reach out past pride and fear of failure and close the space between generations.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Fear
  • Responsibility
  • Pride

• I am extremely privileged to serve Rhode Island in the United States Senate, and that is my only goal and aspiration.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Goal
  • Serve
  • Aspiration

• The universe is fractal. The closer you look at it, the more interesting it becomes.

  

  John Lloyd
  • Interesting
  • Universe

• 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