Mickey Rourke Quotes

I'm one extreme or the other. I'm not good at doing moderation.

When you are young, you do a lot of stupid things.

When you're 20, we all make stupid and impulsive decisions.

Being young and dumb, honestly, you pick up some bad habits.

Sometimes when you're young and a little more immature, you can overdo things or not really have your legs under you.

You're young and dumb and quick at the tongue.

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

Well it's hard to remember who, but I drunk dial a lot.

Getting wasted is only OK when you're young enough to not know better.

I don't know what idiocies drove me in those days, but they were naive, innocent idiocies in many ways.

I prefer highs and lows to an even keel. Moderation is never something I've been good at.

Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.

I know, I'm like a kid. Maybe I was a bit too spoilt growing up. Everything just came like I wanted it to.

Sometimes, you get too hopped up, too excited, and it works against you.

[Youth] have exalted notions, because they have not yet been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations.... They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones; their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning.... All their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently.... They love too much, hate too much; they think they know everything: in fact, this is why they overdo everything.

I don't think through anything I do. I just do it, and it's oftentimes landed me in huge amounts of trouble.

I'm kind of an all-or-nothing kind of guy.

If people do things without thinking them through, that rubs me up the wrong way.

I live in the extremes.

I'm a really extreme person, and balance is probably the hardest thing for me to maintain.

We can tend to be too ambitious when we're young, and a little blind.

When I first started out in Telugu cinema, I signed anything and everything that came my way. I was 18, was immature, and it felt like a good idea that 'Oh, they are paying me a good amount of money.' I was young, naive; I had zero ambition, and honestly, it wasn't my calling.

I'm a person of extremes. I'm usually very polar in a lot of things that I do.

I was pretty immature, and some of it came from just wanting to have fun.

The young are always in extremes.