Mickey Rourke Quotes

What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized.

I intended to be famous by the time I was 16 and rich by the time I was 20. Curiously, it didn't pan out!

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

At 30 I was not quiet enough inside myself. At 40 I was not rich enough. At 50 I was still hoping to change the world.

I just didn't want a musical side of me being prosperous but I'm dying on the inside.

I really wanted to be a dancer, but I just wasn't good enough to do that so that didn't happen.

After college, I was living in New York and wrote furiously, a huge novel that I knew was a failure. I hoped that the book would work, but to be honest, I think I knew it would never work, even as I was finishing it.

Every day I realized I would not be a star.

Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.

I have made a number of movies that I have never seen. It's not a matter of ego. It's a matter of being disappointed. It's really a shame. It's just as difficult to make a movie that no one cares about as to make a hit.

I wanted to be a huge star and I have failed.

I have a superstition about saying too much about what I want to happen, just in case it all disappears, or someone else comes along and beats me to it.

In life and in movies, it's a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations.

Geniuses sometimes end up very unhappy, without a penny.

I wanted to be a serious actress, but of course that didn't really happen.

You will seek not a near but a distant objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you may have done.

By the time I was ready for college, I didn't know what I wanted to do. I think I secretly wanted a show business career, but I was suppressing it.

I mean, I've sold all these scripts and nothing's been made. Studios have closed, stars have died. I had a director find Jesus. And the pictures just don't get made.

No matter what you write or choreograph, you feel it's not enough.

The treble parade would have been the most perfect moment of my footballing life, but for the two people standing behind me, clearly already plotting their next move.

A fashionable wife! Oh! Never will I be anything so heartless! I have pictured for myself a far higher destiny than this. - Will it ever be more than a picture?

What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

But a lot of writers - and I'm one of them - do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little hard to live with, but it's a goad and does keep you alert and restless.

I suppose it's amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don't work.