Mickey Rourke Quotes

I should have been dead 50, 60 years ago. God just wasn't ready for me. Because I used to raise hell and drink. I've had my fun!

I've been a golden boy for too long.

To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry.

There are no second acts in American lives.

I don't want to go all Michael Jackson on you, but I never really had a childhood.

Let's be very clear: Living 'unforgiven' is not the sole domain of blacks. It can be found in any successful person.

By rights, I should be an out-of-work actress because I just don't want it as badly as some people want it.

For me, trying the NFL and trying this football thing, because of the home and what I went through in there, to me, it was no big deal. It was just another opportunity for me. I didn't see that bigger, grandiose picture of it, I just took it one day at a time, like how I took it in the group home.

Life gives you lots of chances to screw up which means you have just as many chances to get it right.

Last night I let the party get the best of me.

When you’re out there partying, horsing around, someone out there at the same time is working hard. Someone is getting smarter and someone is winning. Just remember that.

Bachelors know all about parties. In fact, a good bachelor is a living, breathing party all by himself. At least that is what my girlfriend said when she found the gin bottles under the couch. I believe her exact words were, "You're a disgusting, drunken mess." And that's a good description of a party, if it's done right.

So many people say, 'So, what, are you a party girl?' And I say, 'I'm a walking good time.' Do I sometimes go out and drink? Hell, yes. But could I have a number one song if I wasn't also working hard? Maybe that needs a little more respect.

All successful individuals have become such by hard work; by improving moments before they pass into hours, and hours that other people may occupy in the pursuit of pleasure.

He that staies does the businesse.

You have to work hard, in order to get anything done.

Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.

Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait. There is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will do it all.

Most people will not do the hard work it takes to make success easy. Don't be like most people.

Successful salesmen, authors, executives and workmen of every sort need patience. The great liability of youth is not inexperience but impatience.

I know of no genius but the genius of hard work.

Make the work you are doing today better than the work you did yesterday.

Everything valuable takes time, there are no overnight successes.

I think I've made a lot of sacrifices. I work very, very hard. I've created thousands and thousands of jobs, tens of thousands of jobs, built great structures. I've had tremendous success. I think I've done a lot.

and the whole forest would give itself up to jollification for weeks on end.