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.
A lot of the stuff I am now seeing is edgy, raw kinda material.
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.
All that prosthetic makeup drains you. By the time it's lunch, you're done.
Comeback is a good word, man.
Doing physical or fighting scenes in movies is really the hardest part, so wherever I could have the stunt guy do it, I'd prefer to have him do it.
Eric Roberts is one of the great actors ever. I just worked with him a bit again on Spun-but he had some problems, health problems that have made it tough on him, but he is working again.
I always knew I'd accomplish something very special - like robbing a bank perhaps.
I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong.
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.
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.
I love sports and I wanted to do something competitively one more time before I was a goddamned geriatric. God, when you're in your 40s, what sports are left? Fishing?
I never look backwards. I have always been an athlete. I boxed before I acted.
I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that.
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.
I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing.
If you don't make movies that make a lot of money, then it's very hard for you to continue to do the work that you want to do.
It was either therapy or die.
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.
It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars.
One of the first movies I ever made was Rumble Fish. And it was a major flop hero-maybe three people saw it.
They have great strip clubs in Austin, Texas, so I would have my fan club... I would have the girls come up and we would, ah... talk.
What I've got to do now is let them judge me for who I am as an actor and not for my notoriety.
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.
Mickey was set to play the part of stuntman Mike on Quentin Tarantino's Grindhouse, but was replaced by Kurt Russell after an arguement caused Mickey to walk off of production.
Mickey's boxing nickname was 'El Marielito'.
Mickey performed on David Bowie's Never Let Me Down album in the 1980s.
Mickey was once called the 'human ashtray' by Kim Basinger.
Mickey ended his boxing career with severe facial injuries that required several operations to repair.
Mickey's ultimate goal was to fight 16 professional bouts and one for the world title. He retired after 7 matches, never making it to his desired title fight.
Mickey appeared on the cover of World Boxing magazine in June of 1994.
Mickey compiled an amateur boxing record of 20-6 with 17 knockouts from 1968 through 1972. He was disqualified 4 times and lost two decisions. He retired after a physician told him to quit immediately, or suffer permanent brain damage, from all of the concussions he had suffered.
Mickey took self defense training at the Boys Club of Miami, he learned to box, sparking his interest in making that his career.
Mickey was arrested by the LAPD and charged with spousal abuse in July of 1994, for assaulting then-wife Carrie Otis.
He made his professional boxing debut on May 23, 1991 in Florida by winning a 4 round decision over Steve Powell. He retired from boxing undefeated after boxing a draw with "Irish" Sean Gibbons in Davie, Florida in 1994.
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