Mickey Rourke » Quotes

I've talked to my priest a lot. I used to have to call him or the shrink when there was an explosion, because I was really good at not talking to anybody until there was an explosion. My priest is this cool Italian from New York. We go down to his basement and he opens the wine. We smoke a cigarette and I have my confession. He sends me upstairs to do my Hail Mary's. I mean, I'm no Holy Joe, but I have a strong belief. If I wasn't Catholic I would have blown my brains out. I would pray to God. I would say, 'Please can you send me just a little bit of daylight.' He talked me out of it and we started meeting. His name is Father Pete and he lives in New York. Father Pete put me back on the right track.

George is doing a hell of a job during very difficult times, more power to him. Screw all them people who don't like him. - On President George W. Bush

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.

Comeback is a good word, man.

I thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong. I'm willing to give them 100 per cent this time. I just want a second chance at Hollywood. (1994)

It was the most fun I've ever had on a movie. It was one of the happiest times in my life. I was living in New York, and I really enjoyed acting at the time. Also, it's funny because that was also the time when I went downhill.

(On what he wants in a woman:) "It's like when I buy a horse. I don't want a thick neck and short legs."

I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job.

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.

I always knew I'd accomplish something very special - like robbing a bank perhaps.

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

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.

Doing physical or fighting scenes in movies is really the hardest part, so wherever I could have the stunt guy do it, I'd prefer to have him do it.

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

I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.