A biography for Mickey Rourkehasn’t been written yet.
“People are always afraid of the truth.”
“It was either therapy or die.”
“Winning an Oscar ain't about performance. There's a lot of politics involved.”
“I loved my mother, but I don't like her.”
“I'm not gonna rush out and see the next 'Batman;' I'm not big on formula movies.”
“I started out fighting before I was acting, actually, then got hurt and got into the acting.”
“It's no fun being a loser. Trust me.”
“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!”
“A lot of the stuff I am now seeing is edgy, raw kinda material.”
“I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with a feeling of abandonment and shame.”
“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.”
“Evan Rachel Wood is the best actress I've ever worked with, hands down.”
“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.”
“When I first met Alan Parker, who directed 'Angel Heart,' he'd heard so many horror stories about me that he was literally scared to death of me. Right away, he sat me down and said, 'I'm very scared of you. I've heard you're a very bad boy.'”
“I used to love playing football in high school. I played with the same guys for 10 years.”
“To me, everything's competition.”
“I love the first Godfather movie, part one. And two.”
“Being out of work for 13 to 15 years is no walk in the park.”
“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.”
“I have a really good relationship with a lot of designers. I like Gaultier, Billionaire and Cavalli.”