Mickey Rourke Quotes

Everyone knows a lot about me without actually knowing me at all.

I think since I'm not particularly well-known as myself, it's funny all the different perceptions people have of me. Like, if someone's only seen me in 'Death Proof,' they think I'm sort of a ditzy girl who says stupid things and wears revealing outfits all the time.

I look thuggish when I shave my head and wear big boots. I walk into a newsagent and people think I'm going to jump the counter.

I'm actually quite a nice person. It's to do with the way I look, an uncompromising sort of face, brusque delivery and voice, and I think the combination of all that. When I'm doing pantomime, children will scream the place down before I open my mouth. There's obviously something that really gets them.

People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.

Sometimes, you just get a label and it sticks.

When I first met Robert Patrick, I died - he is so scary looking - he is a scary looking man.

My actual intake of different substances was far below what people thought it was, no matter how weird or outrageous they think I am.

When you've been in the tabloids as a drunken 'It-boy', people automatically assume you're thick.

Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.

After 'Breaking Bad,' people are very frightened of who I am. They back away from me on the street.

I've always liked people who know me to like me, because I think I'm quite likeable. But people who make up their minds based on the image in the papers or a voice on a pop record? They're idiots.

Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful generator of fear. And fear slides easily into aggression and contempt.

I had the traditional print view of TV journalists: Those are pretty people who get paid a lot of money and don't do any work. It turned out I was wrong.

It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true.

I think a lot of ladies get quite scared about people like me, 'rock stars', and it can be hard to meet the right sort of person.

To people who don't know me I'm defined by a number of things that people know about me that are entirely untrue.

My reality is the misconceptions about me.

Maybe I'm misjudging people, but I feel like a lot of people still have an image of me in a bonnet at nine years old.

The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear.

People read things on Google, and they have these perceptions, these misconceived perceptions of who you are. At times that hurts, because they really don't know who I am.

… fear false knowledge

I wouldn't like to meet Daniel Craig on a dark night if I'd said anything bad about him.

People sometimes approach me tentatively or suspiciously because of my father's reputation as a world-class negotiator, as if they think I'm about to take advantage of them. As if I know something I'm not letting on.

I'm not trying to prove anything. People look at me, and they take things away from me because of a movie. They don't really see the skills and the kind of player I am. That's why I get downgraded so much, because of something off the field.