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.
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."
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Mickey RourkeI was very ashamed of seeing a therapist because I thought only crazy people went, and then, after about nine years, I asked him, 'Well, was I really crazy?' And he nodded and said, 'You were but not any more.'
Mickey Rourke