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Mickey Rourke

"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."

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"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."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"I remember the first reading of the script we had and everybody was sitting around the table. I was very impressed with the level of acting that was in the room, particularly with Jennifer who has so much responsibility."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"It's an acting job - acting natural."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"Acting with creatures that aren't there is kind like acting with an actor who refuses to come out of his trailer. You still have to go on and do the scene."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"I'm not as focused on my acting career as I have been in the past."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"Because modeling is lucrative, I'm able to save up and be more particular about the acting roles I take."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"I dropped the script in the fireplace, called my agent and said, they can jail me, sue me, but I'm never acting again, unless I can do something worthwhile."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"The only thing I like about being an actress is acting."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"I'm not acting, but I am acting."

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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
"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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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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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
"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."

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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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