Happy Birthday Mickey Rourke!

Where I come from, being a hard man is being able to take a good beating and then get back up again and carry on fighting.

Geben Sie mir bitte den Yuppie mit dem weißen Porsche!

I spent so long studying really hard to become a fine actor, but threw it all away because I got the adulation and the fame so easily.

Der Mensch, den du im Spiegel siehst, ist schuld. Sonst niemand. 

As time goes by and you're getting older and stuff like that - getting older sucks. You know, I hear all this crap about, 'Oh, you can age with dignity.' Really?

Es ist wie beim Kauf eines Pferdes. Ich will keinen dicken Nacken und kurze Beine!

Sometimes, when a man is alone, that's all you got is your dog.

Das Leben ist kein Sprint. Es ist ein Marathon.

Some of your worst gangsters are guys who were very low-key.

In der Schauspielerei gilt jeder als schwierig, der dem Produzenten nicht in den Hintern kriecht.

I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with a feeling of abandonment and shame.

Niemand hatte mir gesagt, dass Film ein Geschäft ist. Ich dachte, es ginge um Talent. 

I don't mind getting punched in the nose by a guy standing in front of me. It's getting stabbed in the back that I can't handle.

Evan Rachel Wood is the best actress I've ever worked with, hands down.

I loved my mother, but I don't like her.

I spent a lot of years trying to beat the system and, in the end, the system kicked my behind good.

When you lose everything, and I mean everything, you sit there in this empty room in the dark, and the only person who can get you out is you.

A lot of those who let you down are those who seemed the closest to you.

Comeback is a good word, man.

My dogs are more important than my family.

I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing.

The hardest thing in life to do is to change.

Wrestling and boxing is like Ping-Pong and rugby. There's no connection.

Very few men can fall as far as I have and come back. People see me and it's like they've seen a ghost, like I'm back from the dead.

You know, back in acting school they always teach you, 'Make bold choices and look for activities that are interesting.'

A lot of the stuff I am now seeing is edgy, raw kinda material.

I always knew I'd accomplish something very special - like robbing a bank perhaps.

I grew up in a gym in Miami, the one where Muhammad Ali trained. I had 142 amateur fights and lost three.

It's no fun being a loser. Trust me.

When you're young, working in a warehouse or selling hot dogs, you look at work - at acting - as something precious. It gets you out of the stink.

I trained like an animal, but the thing is focus and concentration. When the bell rings it's like when the little red light goes on over the camera. And I can usually nail my lines on the first or second take because I'm right there.