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

• 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

• Back in the day, I had this fluoro pink hoodie that I thought was the coolest thing ever. Left it at a party and never saw it again. Probably the best thing that could have happened.

  

  Flume
  • Party
  • Day
  • Best

• I like physical comedy. And I like the old comedies.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Comedy
  • Like
  • Old

• I work very hard at each story, at every sentence.

  

  Max Apple
  • Work

• No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.

  

  Keith Miller
  • Relationship
  • Gentleman

• The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Night
  • Giving
  • Years

• I can't be bought. I don't need to be bought. I'm not a careerist. I don't need to have a career in politics. I'm in a very, very luxurious position, but I am in a position of strength.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Career
  • Politics
  • Strength

• I really enjoy doing films, but I also love television. I certainly would not be against doing some regular television work and being on a show that runs several years.

  

  Samm Levine
  • Work
  • Enjoy
  • Against

• 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