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"It was either therapy or die."

Mickey Rourke, American Actor

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"It was either therapy or die."

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

"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, Day, Fun, Talking

"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."

Movies, Mistake, People, Years

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

Ability, Wrong, Years

"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."

Funny, Time, Life, Acting

"All that prosthetic makeup drains you. By the time it's lunch, you're done."

"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."

Acting, Europe, Fighting, Job

"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."

First, Focus, Light, Right

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

Movies, Money, Actors, Stars

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"I suppose that I did for myself what psychoanalysts do for their patients. I expressed some very long felt and deeply felt emotion. And in expressing it I explained it and then laid it to rest."

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"I was in group therapy for years but it wasn't the same thing. It was more about growing."

Sally Kellerman, American Actress

"Therapy? I don't need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy."

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"It was either therapy or die."

Mickey Rourke, American Actor

"Why pay $100 on a therapy session when you can spend $25 on a cigar? Whatever it is will come back; so what, smoke another one."

Raul Julia, Puerto Rican Actor

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