Change for me was really hard because I had built myself up to be a certain kind of man my whole life, as men are where I come from. I thought I got to handle things different that's gonna make me feel like a real pussy. For me it was hard to turn the other cheek. Even though it's a stronger choice. It was very hard to make the change, but I had to in order to survive. Otherwise they would have won.
Mickey RourkePeople ask me about that all the time. They say, "Did you ever think of directing?" And I say, "It's completely out of the question."
Mickey RourkeI 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.
Mickey RourkeYears 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.
Mickey RourkeUsually if you read a screenplay, no matter who's writing it, the bad guy is always written as a one-dimensional bad guy.
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