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I grew up in a gym in Miami, the one where Muhammad Ali trained. I had 142 amateur fights and lost three.

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Fights, Had, Trained, Amateur

I don't care what Tom Cruise says about therapy.

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Cruise, Therapy, Tom Cruise, Tom

When you're young, working in a warehouse or selling hot dogs, you look at work - at acting - as something precious. It gets you out of the stink.

- Mickey Rourke

Work, Precious, Young, Hot Dogs

I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with a feeling of abandonment and shame.

- Mickey Rourke

Shame, Violent, Became, Abandonment

Where I come from, being a hard man is being able to take a good beating and then get back up again and carry on fighting.

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Back, Come, Again, Beating

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

- Mickey Rourke

Movie, Studio, Studio Movies, Automatically

I spent a lot of years trying to beat the system and, in the end, the system kicked my behind good.

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Good, Behind, Spent, Kicked

I don't mind getting punched in the nose by a guy standing in front of me. It's getting stabbed in the back that I can't handle.

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Mind, Nose, Back, Punched

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

Focus, I Can, Trained, Rings

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

Back, Some, Directors, Authoritarian

Some of your worst gangsters are guys who were very low-key.

- Mickey Rourke

Some, Gangsters, Very, Guys

Bounty hunters these days - because everything is so sophisticated with computers and surveillance, it doesn't have to be a one-man-army-type guy who goes in and kicks a door down.

- Mickey Rourke

Door, Sophisticated, Hunters, Bounty

I still work out most days. When I do it, I go full blast five or six days a week, two to three hours a day. I enjoy it. It's therapeutic for me.

- Mickey Rourke

Hours, Six, Still, Therapeutic

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

My Life, Movie, Happiest, Downhill

Wrestling and boxing is like Ping-Pong and rugby. There's no connection.

- Mickey Rourke

Boxing, Rugby, Like, No Connection

I love the first Godfather movie, part one. And two.

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Love, Movie, I Love, Godfather

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

Doing, Fighting, Had, Bonding

A lot of those who let you down are those who seemed the closest to you.

- Mickey Rourke

Down, Lot, Seemed, Closest

Comeback is a good word, man.

- Mickey Rourke

Good, Man, Word, Comeback

When I first met Alan Parker, who directed 'Angel Heart,' he'd heard so many horror stories about me that he was literally scared to death of me. Right away, he sat me down and said, 'I'm very scared of you. I've heard you're a very bad boy.'

- Mickey Rourke

Death, Away, Very, Alan

The acclaim I'm getting for 'The Wrestler' means everything in the world to me. But it also means I can't take my foot off the gas pedal.

- Mickey Rourke

Pedal, Means, Also, Wrestler

You want to earn respect in your old age. You want to walk into a restaurant and have people say: 'There's Mickey Rourke. He was great in 'The Wrestler.' You don't want them jumping out of windows.

- Mickey Rourke

Jumping, Your, Mickey, Wrestler

I spent so long studying really hard to become a fine actor, but threw it all away because I got the adulation and the fame so easily.

- Mickey Rourke

Studying, Away, Threw, Adulation

In Hollywood, you're always playing roles... It's like going through the motions. But in real life, it's like, you gotta take care of business. It's not just the movies.

- Mickey Rourke

Through, Hollywood, Always, Motions

You know, back in acting school they always teach you, 'Make bold choices and look for activities that are interesting.'

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Interesting, Teach, Always, Acting School

Evan Rachel Wood is the best actress I've ever worked with, hands down.

- Mickey Rourke

Actress, Ever, Worked, Wood

It's no fun being a loser. Trust me.

- Mickey Rourke

Trust, Me, Being, No Fun

I 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 Rourke

Other, Therapy, Anybody, Behaved

I never look backwards. I have always been an athlete. I boxed before I acted.

- Mickey Rourke

Never, Always, Been, Boxed

All that prosthetic makeup drains you. By the time it's lunch, you're done.

- Mickey Rourke

Makeup, Lunch, By The Time, Prosthetic

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