Mickey Rourke
I had gotten injured during the boxing, and I was supposed to take several months off because I'd had a couple of concussions, and so I sort of just left the boxing and got into the acting by accident.Collection: Couple
I think the first year and a half that I was in New York I was having trouble just living somewhere. Back in them days the city was a lot different than it is now.Collection: New York
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 easilyCollection: Long
I probably did a dozen plays, like Off-Off-Broadway stuff.Collection: Play
If you look closely at some scenes in Diner, my eyes look like Dracula's.Collection: Eye
I have so many boxing gloves around my house that I would get them confused with other gloves.Collection: Confused
I tried to change my name for the fights, but the only way they could pay me money was if I used my own name. I wanted to change my name to, like, Romeo something-or-other, and they said, "No, we can't do that. We've got to use Mickey Rourke." Because they paid me a lot of money to go over to Europe and Asia to fight.Collection: Fighting