Mickey Rourke (Philip Andre "Mickey" Rourke Jr.) Quotes
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.
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I'm a firm believer in the Second Amendment and the Bill of Rights. I don't think you should infringe on the type of weapon somebody should buy or the number of rounds in a high-capacity magazine.
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I do love pasta. It gets me into trouble. If I could give up pasta and bread, I'd look like Cate Blanchett.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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I do not want to do a role which is similar to the previous one or the concept and the genre.
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The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
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This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it's a part of live entertainment.
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I think I know I've been working very hard for the family business, sometimes those days are long days and I think if I know I'm working hard and pulling my weight, both working and playing hard at the same time, I think everyone who I work with can see I am there pulling my weight.
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Gay activists claim that because I don't subscribe to their political agenda, I am a homophobe, meaning I have a mental disorder - because that is what phobias are.
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
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I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
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I have a mental coach in Korea, and I talk to her every week before the tournament, during the tournament and try to talk to her and try to get a little bit of the pressure off.
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I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
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My message to business leaders is clear: If you are looking to expand your business and boost the bottom line, there is no better place than Utah to do it.
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I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.
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I didn't mean to live in Portland. It was kind of an accident - I mean, the equivalent of my car breaking down there and me being like, 'Well... I guess this is what I'm doing. I just can't find a better alternate.'
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There is simply too much of my life that is involved in my work that I couldn't replicate in any other way.
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Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.
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Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.
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Acting is an odd lifestyle. You make deep bonds quickly and, though you move on, you go around on a loop and see people again.
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Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.
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It has been the resolution of mankind in all ages of the world. No people, no age, ever threw away the fruits of past wisdom, or the enjoyment of present blessings, for visionary schemes of ideal perfection. It is the knowledge of the past, the actual infliction of the present, that has produced all changes, all innovations, and all improvements - not (as is pretended) the chimerical anticipation of possible advantages, but the intolerable pressure of long-established, notorious, aggravated, and growing abuses.
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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.
