A Reputation Is Really Hard To Live

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.

I Tried To Change My Name For The Fights, But The Only Way They Could Pay Me Money Was If I Used My Own Name. I Wanted To Change My Name To, Like, Romeo Something-or-other, And They Said, "no, We Can't Do That. We've Got To Use Mickey Rourke." Because They Paid Me A Lot Of Money To Go Over To Europe And Asia To Fight.

It's Always Been The Case That You Have The Really Rich, And The Really Poor. But Hey, Look, All The Great Empires Have Their Periods Where They Rule The World, And Then They Crumble.

A Reputation Is Really Hard To Live Down.

I Had A Lot Of Anger Inside Me And That Came Out At Times That Were Not Particularly Advantageous To Me Career-wise.