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Quotes By Mickey Rourke

Years ago I realized that maybe I made mistake, politically, when I turned a lot of that stuff down. I would go off to obscure places and make movies that six people went to see.

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MoviesMaybe Stuff

Sometimes the independent movies can get a little too arty-farty. You watch the IFC Channel and you want to throw up. You don’t always have to take things so serious, you know.

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MoviesSerious Watch

Mitch Glazer and I went to high school together, and his mother was my English teacher for two years. She was my favorite teacher, and I followed Mitch’s career as a journalist, so we’ve kind of kept in touch over the years.

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TeacherMother Together

I don’t have many Hollywood friends anyway; I thought with my ability I didn’t need to make those kind of relationships, but maybe I should have done. Might have made my life easier!

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LifeMaybe Might

I behaved worse than anybody for 15 years, and you have to pay the price for that. I used to blame other people, then therapy made me realise I had to change.

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ChangeAnybody Pay

It’s the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars.

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MoneyMoviesStars

It was either therapy or die.

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Die Either Therapy

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

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Balance Boxing Worst

Winning an Oscar ain’t about performance. There’s a lot of politics involved.

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PoliticsInvolved Winning

Usually if you read a screenplay, no matter who’s writing it, the bad guy is always written as a one-dimensional bad guy.

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Guy Matter Written

I’m only as rich as my next film.

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Next Rich

There’s always going to be a war going on inside of me. That’s just, I think, my make-up.

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WarInside

I used to love playing football in high school. I played with the same guys for 10 years.

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LoveHigh Playing

I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that.

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Anybody High

A reputation is really hard to live down.

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Reputation
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