“You want to earn respect in your old age. You want to walk into a restaurant and have people say: 'There's Mickey Rourke. He was great in 'The Wrestler.' You don't want them jumping out of windows.”

American actor, more than forty years in film

Mickey Rourke is an American actor who has worked mainly in drama, action, and thriller films. His film career has stretched across more than forty years. He is best known for appearing as a leading man in films that have drawn large audiences worldwide. Over the course of that career, the films he has appeared in have grossed more than $1.9 billion globally.