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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 Rourke
Academy
Academy Awards
After
Area
Awards
Being
Coming
Compromise
Couple
Down
Everything
Guys
Long
Terms
Therapy
Things
Today
Turned
Where
Will
Won
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A lot of the stuff I am now seeing is edgy, raw kinda material.
~ Mickey Rourke
Am
Edgy
I Am
Kinda
Lot
Material
Now
Raw
Seeing
Stuff
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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 Rourke
Able
Actor
Ahead
Am
Been
Best
Best Work
Better
Hoping
I Am
I Think
Interesting
Last
Made
Me
More
Only
Several
Still
Think
Through
Work
Years
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All that prosthetic makeup drains you. By the time it's lunch, you're done.
~ Mickey Rourke
By The Time
Done
Drains
Lunch
Makeup
Prosthetic
Time
You
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Comeback is a good word, man.
~ Mickey Rourke
Comeback
Good
Man
Word
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I always knew I'd accomplish something very special - like robbing a bank perhaps.
~ Mickey Rourke
Accomplish
Always
Bank
Knew
Like
Perhaps
Robbing
Something
Special
Very
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I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong.
~ Mickey Rourke
Ability
Beat
Because
Could
Did
Many
System
Think
Wrong
Years
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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.
~ Mickey Rourke
Acting
Asia
Because
Bonding
Boxed
Different
Doing
Done
Europe
Fighting
Five
Get
Had
Job
Off
Over
Problem
Something
Thing
Tired
Wanted
Years
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I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.
~ Mickey Rourke
Anger
Came
Had
Inside
Lot
Me
Out
Particularly
Times
Were
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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.
~ Mickey Rourke
Authoritarian
Back
Day
Directors
Fix
Fun
Had
Like
Lot
Me
Never
Older
Really
Some
Some Things
Talking
Things
Took
Were
Who
Work
Years
You
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I never look backwards. I have always been an athlete. I boxed before I acted.
~ Mickey Rourke
Acted
Always
Athlete
Backwards
Been
Before
Boxed
Look
Never
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I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that.
~ Mickey Rourke
Anybody
Aspirations
Because
Film
Had
High
Never
Started
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I 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 Rourke
Animal
Because
Bell
Camera
Concentration
First
Focus
Goes
I Can
Light
Like
Lines
Little
Nail
Over
Red
Red Light
Right
Rings
Second
Take
Thing
Trained
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I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing.
~ Mickey Rourke
Balance
Everything
Immature
Just
Me
Nothing
Very
Young
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It was either therapy or die.
~ Mickey Rourke
Die
Either
Therapy
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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.
~ Mickey Rourke
Acting
Also
Because
Downhill
Enjoyed
Ever
Fun
Funny
Had
Happiest
Life
Living
Most
Movie
My Life
New
New York
Really
Time
Times
York
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It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars.
~ Mickey Rourke
Actor
Automatically
Make
Money
Movie
Movie Stars
Movies
Stars
Studio
Studio Movies
Them
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What I've got to do now is let them judge me for who I am as an actor and not for my notoriety.
~ Mickey Rourke
Actor
Am
Got
I Am
Judge
Judge Me
Me
Notoriety
Now
Them
Who
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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.
~ Mickey Rourke
Down
Go
Lot
Made
Make
Maybe
Mistake
Movies
Obscure
Off
People
Places
Politically
Realized
See
Six
Stuff
Turned
Would
Years
Years Ago
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A lot of those who let you down are those who seemed the closest to you.
~ Mickey Rourke
Closest
Down
Lot
Seemed
Those
Who
You
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