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Mickey Rourke

"I had some things I had to fix. It took me 14 years to do it. But it was never really fun back in the day to work with directors who were a lot older and were like authoritarian and talking to you like that."

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"I had some things I had to fix. It took me 14 years to do it. But it was never really fun back in the day to work with directors who were a lot older and were like authoritarian and talking to you like that."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"The only work I did for the next five years after splitting from Vincent was work I'd already lined up."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"I've done my best to work from a place of humility - always looking over your shoulder saying, "Does this suck?" and I think that's a good way to work. The other way to work is where you start to think, "I'm on fire, I'm amazing!" and I don't think that's the way to work."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"And it took me about 11 years to get a record deal, and I just had to work around and come to terms with the fact that what I was doing was going to be different, and I just had to wait until somebody was ready to jump on the bandwagon."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"Starship Troopers was great. It was great fun to work on something with blue screens and big budget special effects. Denise Richards was nice to look at too, of course."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"The world is sick of big IT things that don't work."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"I think I've matured to a great extent. I think that I want different things now. That it's not about the celebrity status that you receive because you're doing the next hot movie. It's about doing good work."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes - where a woman's personality and sense of style are realized."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I can't do a lot of casting. I can work a jig or a worm. But not for long, especially if the big ones are biting. Those big bass will make it hurt after a while."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone."

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Mickey Rourke
"I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong."

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Mickey Rourke
"I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise."

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Mickey Rourke
"I had some things I had to fix. It took me 14 years to do it. But it was never really fun back in the day to work with directors who were a lot older and were like authoritarian and talking to you like that."

Work

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Mickey Rourke
"Years ago I realized that maybe I made mistake, politically, when I turned a lot of that stuff down. I would go off to obscure places and make movies that six people went to see."

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Mickey Rourke
"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."

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Mickey Rourke
"A couple of guys won Academy Awards for the things that I turned down. Today, after coming to terms with everything, after being in therapy for a long time-there are areas where I will compromise."

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Mickey Rourke
"It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars."

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Mickey Rourke
"What I've got to do now is let them judge me for who I am as an actor and not for my notoriety."

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Mickey Rourke
"All I am hoping for is to be able to work - I think my best work is still ahead of me - I think all that I have been through in the last several years have only made me a better, more interesting actor."

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

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