Mickey Rourke Quotes

I'd love it if doors open for me in America. There are directors I'd love to work with there. I'll always do theater, but I've got to pay the mortgage.

I am very fortunate to have a career. I always have to act. I don't know if I'll have a career to support it for the rest of my life, but I know I'll always act.

You just want to be able to have a nice career and make a living at it.

Ultimately, I want to have a good career and do interesting work.

I didn't go to L.A. to be a star; that wasn't my intention. When I auditioned for 'The Price Is Right' and got it, I was very content doing it - 'I don't have to work three jobs anymore. This is great.'

I can tell you what people on minimum wage want: They want a career. They don't want a minimum wage.

Well, I've cleaned bathrooms in a warehouse. That was pretty terrible. But I can't complain because I'm sure other people have done worse.

I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.

Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.

The last time I had a job that wasn't an acting job was '88, and I'm quite proud of that.

I had a wonderful career.

I don't really know why I went to law school.

I get offered to do stuff where the money's nice but it's not something I want to do - I get offered a lot of commercials too.

When I was 16, I spent a year pushing trollies around a car park, and that wasn't fun. I didn't love working in a supermarket; it wasn't for me. It is for some people, and that's totally cool.

I think doing 'Teen Wolf' is just giving me a really great opportunity to possibly get other jobs and show what I can do.

I spent a long time working in restaurants and making no money. It was very character-building, but I think it could have been built in a shorter time.

I did quite a lot of menial jobs. I was a waiter, an inventory clerk touring round properties listing cups and saucers, and a laserquest marshal.

I feel very lucky that I make a living doing what I always wanted to do.

I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor.

Other acting opportunities had come along, but nothing that was tantalizing enough to me to step away from what I found most interesting.

I'm not trying to conquer Hollywood. I love my day job.

In acting, every day is different, and I guess it appeals to my storytelling imagination. But I've been very fortunate to get the chance to do what I want to do and earn a living from it to pay the mortgage.

The three things I said when I came out of school were I want to work consistently, I want to do good work and I want to be paid fairly, and that's happened. But I didn't become an actress for the money. I do it for other reasons.

My goal has always been to make a living and to have the respect of my peers. It's never been about stardom. It's about a good and challenging part.

When you get your dream job, you'd be really hard-pressed to leave it. Unless you've got another dream job out there.