All I am hoping for is to be able to work–I think my best work is still ahead of me–I think all that I have been through in the last several years have only made me a better, more interesting actor. — Mickey Rourke

Being out of work for 13 to 15 years is no walk in the park. — Mickey Rourke

I still work out most days. When I do it, I go full blast five or six days a week, two to three hours a day. I enjoy it. It’s therapeutic for me. — Mickey Rourke

When you’re young, working in a warehouse or selling hot dogs, you look at work–at acting–as something precious. It gets you out of the stink. — Mickey Rourke

I had some things I had to fix. It took me 14 years to do it. But it was never really fun back in the day to work with directors who were a lot older and were like authoritarian and talking to you like that. — Mickey Rourke

In boxing, you don’t know what’s going to happen. In wrestling, it’s already prearranged. — Mickey Rourke

Wrestling and boxing is like Ping–Pong and rugby. There’s no connection. — Mickey Rourke

I’m the worst surfer in California. My balance is off from boxing. — Mickey Rourke

I have so many boxing gloves around my house that I would get them confused with other gloves. — Mickey Rourke

All that prosthetic makeup drains you. By the time it’s lunch, you’re done. — Mickey Rourke

People ask me about that all the time. They say, ‘Did you ever think of directing?’ And I say, ‘It’s completely out of the question. — Mickey Rourke

Now, i dont look up to him no more; i look through him, i came up from the s––t. he doesnt know that life. i lived that f–––ing life, so every time i look him in the face, i look right through his a––hole. — Mickey Rourke

As time goes by and you’re getting older and stuff like that–getting older sucks. You know, I hear all this crap about, ‘Oh, you can age with dignity.’ Really? — Mickey Rourke

I was goIng through a really rough tIme, I was hurtIng myself and I was sIttIng In the closet one day. I couldn’t take It anymore and pIcked up a gun. — Mickey Rourke

A couple of guys won Academy Awards for the things that I turned down. Today, after coming to terms with everything, after being in therapy for a long time–there are areas where I will compromise. — Mickey Rourke

I started out fighting before I was acting, actually, then got hurt and got into the acting. — Mickey Rourke

Hollywood’s famous for putting you in a box. — Mickey Rourke

I’ve been with a lot of women, but who’s counting? It’s nothing I’m proud of. It’s a physical need. Sometimes afterwards I just want to blow my brains out, it’s so meaningless. — Mickey Rourke

My dogs are more important than my family. — Mickey Rourke

Sometimes, when a man is alone, that’s all you got is your dog. — Mickey Rourke

Comeback is a good word, man. — Mickey Rourke

I spent so long studying really hard to become a fine actor, but threw it all away because I got the adulation and the fame so easily. — Mickey Rourke

What I’ve got to do now is let them judge me for who I am as an actor and not for my notoriety. — Mickey Rourke

It’s no fun being a loser. Trust me. — Mickey Rourke

It was either therapy or die. — Mickey Rourke

I couldn’t direct traffic. It’s hard enough just acting. — Mickey Rourke

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. — Mickey Rourke

You know, back in acting school they always teach you, ‘Make bold choices and look for activities that are interesting.’ — Mickey Rourke

I had gotten injured during the boxing, and I was supposed to take several months off because I’d had a couple of concussions, and so I sort of just left the boxing and got into the acting by accident. — Mickey Rourke