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.
Mickey RourkeI think the first year and a half that I was in New York I was having trouble just living somewhere. Back in them days the city was a lot different than it is now.
Mickey RourkeI trained like an animal, but the thing is focus and concentration. When the bell rings it's like when the little red light goes on over the camera. And I can usually nail my lines on the first or second take because I'm right there.
Mickey RourkeI had gotten injured during the boxing, and I was supposed to take several months off because I'd had a couple of concussions, and so I sort of just left the boxing and got into the acting by accident.
Mickey RourkeWhen I did Sean Pennโs movie, I think I was living in, like, a $500-a-month room, and someone called me up or bumped into me and asked me if Iโd come up to work for a day. That sort of got me going a little bit. But it wasnโt until Sin City [2005] that I kind of got back into the game.
Mickey Rourke