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"I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that."
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"Each of us has the ability to dream."
"Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing."
"Fear is not my portion, limitation is not my portion for that reason I will dream massive dreams and I will continue to dream until the end of my road."
"To give your dream an honest try, is to persist and persevere for however long that it would take for it to meet its point of reality."
"The opportunity cost of an unlived dream is not only that dream, but also the dreams the dream was meant to inspire."
"One day, she'd find a way to live her life to the fullest. She was sure of it. She just had no idea how she would manage it."
"One day, maybe not in the next few weeks, but certainly in the conceivable future, someone will be able to refer to me without using the word 'arse' somewhere in the sentence."
"The lonely road to greatness is better than the crowded road to mediocrity."
"He would give every penny he has (such is the malignity of the germ) to write one little book and become famous yet all the gold in Peru will not buy him the treasure of a well-turned line."
"The moment you choose your vision, great confliction comes along. You have confliction even if you don't choose the vision. Our soul grows not by living life within a small confliction, but rather living with big conflictions inside a big vision. A soul with a vision can succeed."
Explore more quotes by 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."
"I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise."
"What I've got to do now is let them judge me for who I am as an actor and not for my notoriety."
"I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job."
"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."
"It was the most fun I've ever had on a movie. It was one of the happiest times in my life. I was living in New York, and I really enjoyed acting at the time. Also, it's funny because that was also the time when I went downhill."
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