Mickey Rourke Quotes

But you've reached them, and I've always wanted to reach people. I'm the first one to say I love my fans because they love that I took a chance.

In my career, I've never been a box office name. Granted, a couple of my movies have made a lot of money, but I'd do other movies which make very little money, or they're not seen that much.

I know it's a big gamble, but I want to do good films.

I have done films only for the sake of money and sometimes, I have been duped into believing that the film is a sensible project.

I'm shying away from getting lost in really bad movies for really good money.

After 'Superstar,' I was encouraged. I felt audiences wanted to be challenged.

It's very important to me to understand myself and my place in the world. My films help me with that, and the more people see them, the more I am making a statement.

I'm happy that the kind of films I'm doing right now is reaching a wider audience, and I'm looking forward to direct Hindi films as well.

I always have looked for the best challenge, I guess, that I could take on. I haven't been producing my own work or anything like that, so I've taken the jobs that look most interesting that come my way.

In standup, it's just you. You're your own writer, your own critic, your own director, and it's never the same. You really don't always have it down. Your continue to learn, you continue to risk, and I really love it.

I have tried to make decisions to work with great directors, with good scripts, and that makes the pickings real slim.

I don't believe in remaking television series. I should never have agreed to reviving 'Upstairs Downstairs' because my heart wasn't in it, but part of me did think about my pension.

When I made my first film, it was just an adventure. But after my first movie, I guess I got more of a feeling of what was happening around me.

It's a great privilege to make a film, to have it shown, and for people to see it.

I'd tell my teenage self he did the right thing never getting a proper job.

Post 'Pink,' I don't have any film which I can pick out from my filmography and say 'It would have been better if I hadn't done this film.'

I guess I gravitate towards stories that I like and directors that I want to work with, and I hope that it works out.

I went on the Andy Williams show, the Smothers Brothers show, and maybe I shouldn't have. But regrets - I don't think I have any.

I didn't need tempting back to the theatre. It's always been something I'd wanted to do again and again and again, but with every job, you can only take what's in front of you or what's offered.

What you write sets the visual style for the film. But you have to compromise your style in your first few films before people let you do what you want to do.

I love cinema and creating new things, but essentially, I am creating all this because I want people to see it.

It's very rare I'll watch anything I'm a part of and think, 'I wouldn't change a thing.'

I guess, in a sense, 'Audition' was a film that gave me an opportunity that I hadn't had up until that point. So that's definitely one that is important to me. Then there's 'Visitor Q' that kind of taught me that there are some kinds of films that can only be made as low-budget films that really wouldn't work as anything else.

It's never been my goal to do 'big' films because a big film in itself is not very interesting to me.

I did not set up Born Free because I wanted to see myself in films... I want to take my aspirations to another level.