Mickey Rourke Video

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

Am I allowed to say I really wanted this?

I always loved comedy, but I never knew it was something you could learn to do. I always thought that some people are born comedians ... just like some people are born dentists.

Art depends on luck and talent.

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar -- you pretend it's not there.

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

I think that we have created a new kind of person in a way. We have created a child who will be so exposed to the media that he will be lost to his parents by the time he is 12.

Help others get ahead. You will always stand taller with someone else on your shoulders.

I can do whatever I want -- I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.

Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

If a million people see my movie, I hope they see a million different movies.

Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing books, but if not, I'll be on my pond fishing with my kids. I feel like the luckiest guy I know.

"Dear Vincent Gallo, Thank you for the tape which I am listening to at this moment. All the best for 1983 and forever." -William S. Burroughs.

When I was a fireman I was in a lot of burning buildings. It was a great job, the only job I ever had that compares with the thrill of acting. Before going into a fire, there's the same surge of adrenaline you get just before the camera rolls.

You tolerate me, you really tolerate me. [Accepting his Independent Spirit Award]

Like I said, I've got too much respect for women to marry them, but that doesn't mean you can't support them emotionally and financially.

You grow, we all grow, we're made to grow. You either evolve or disappear.

I am the Fred Astaire of karate.

I haven't got a clue about how much I weigh. I do not own any scales. And I have noticed it creates an anger in people who are not skinny. People like to blame their insecurities on other people.

It's like seeing someone for the first time, and you look at each other for a few seconds, and there's this kind of recognition like you both know something. Next moment the person's gone, and it's too late to do anything about it.

Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life.

I just don’t quite understand it [the press], really. I don’t understand the animal. It’s a strange, roundabout way of selling something; it leaves a foul taste... The thing that fascinates me is: who cares what an actor thinks?

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

We're given a code to live our lives by. We don't always follow it, but it's still there.

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.