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.
From 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?
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.
Where I come from, being a hard man is being able to take a good beating and then get back up again and carry on fighting.
Comeback is a good word, man.
I don't mind getting punched in the nose by a guy standing in front of me. It's getting stabbed in the back that I can't handle.
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.
When you lose everything, and I mean everything, you sit there in this empty room in the dark, and the only person who can get you out is you.
The hardest thing in life to do is to change.
People need medicine and they need therapists.
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