Mickey Rourke Quotes

I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.

I love action, so I would really love to get into doing more action movies.

We were doing the dance routine and I dislocated my knee. I've been doing stunts for a long time and it's kind of weird that I'd dislocate my knee just dancing.

I went into dancing but damaged my knees so decided to become an actress instead.

I get paid to get hit in the head.

Nobody wants to be trapped inside that cage me. They don't want to be cut by my elbows, they don't want to get hit by any of my kicks and they don't want their conditioning checked by me.

I love hand-to-hand, and I love putting on these fights; that's the background I come from.

I never wanted to be an actress. I am a martial arts fighter.

I go inside the Octagon for fight. I don't joke, because it's danger.

I went to acting school, and I polished my dancing, but I didn't really learn how to fight.

I've seen guys get hurt from strikes. I've seen guys get hurt from flips. It's the risk we take. I feel the fear of getting hurt will get you hurt.

Injuries are tough. I tore my ACL 50 percent in my left leg. I can't kick. I'm not going to fight without my left leg, which is my best weapon.

I want to do comedy and an action role.

I hurt myself doing a fight scene with some dwarves.

I get paid to hurt other people, how good is that?

I'm an entertainer. I love to fight.

I had my first fight at UFC 13, and it was just one of those things that become second nature to me.

There's a teacher at the Renzo Gracie Academy in New York named John Danaher. He's leading this whole group of fighters named the Danaher Death Squad, and they're revolutionizing how that world works. I actually went and signed up for classes mostly because, man, if there's innovation like that happening in New York, I want to be around it.

I'm very well-rounded. It's mixed martial arts.

I'm a completely evolved fighter.

I do boxing; I do a little jiu jitsu, which I am obsessed with.

Fighting Michael McDonald was awesome.

You can hit the bags, the pads, and you can run and do your fitness and your weights as much as you want, but if you don't spar you just don't have that true experience, that true knowledge of how to beat a man in one-on-one combat.

When I was injured after 'Kill Bill' I had a year where I not just couldn't make any money but I couldn't swim, I couldn't surf, I could hardly run, which is insane. I couldn't do gymnastics, martial arts, I could barely crawl on all fours. That was devastating to me.

I've pictured myself fighting a whole bunch of people. Not only the Max Holloway, but also Conor, Cejudo, Korean Zombie, even Khabib Nurmagomedov.