Mickey Rourke movie quotes

“It's not what the pussy can do for you, it's what you can do for the pussy!”
Mickey Rourke - The Cook

“- Harry Angel: How did he die?
- Det. Deimos: Technically? Asphyxiation by his own genitalia.
- Harry Angel: And not so technically?
- Det. Deimos: Somebody cut his dick off, stuffed it in his mouth and choked him to death.”

Mickey Rourke - Harry Angel
Pruitt Taylor Vince - Det. Deimos

“When his eyes go dead, the hell I send him to will seem like heaven after what I've done to him.”

Mickey Rourke - Marv

“- Henry: Sometimes I just get tired of thinking of all the things that I don't wanna do. All the things that I don't wanna be. Places I don't wanna go, like India, like getting my teeth cleaned. Save the whale, all that, I don't understand that.
- Jim: You're not supposed to think about it. I think the whole trick is not to think about it.”
Mickey Rourke - Henry
J.C. Quinn - Jim

“Once they get the dope off the streets, you know, people will persist in joining things. I mean, you'll see the gangs come back. If you live that long.”
Mickey Rourke - The Motorcycle Boy

“- Emily Reed: Why this? Why all the trouble?
- James Wheeler: Because I'm interested in you.”
Carré Otis - Emily Reed
Mickey Rourke - James Wheeler

“- Tully: I take it you don't care for my world.
- Henry: Well, baby, look around. It's a cage with golden bars.”
Alice Krige - Tully
Mickey Rourke - Henry

“- Elizabeth: How did you know I'd respond to you the way I have?
- John: I saw myself in you.”
Kim Basinger - Elizabeth
Mickey Rourke - John

“As my hands drop the last desperate pen, in some cheap room, they will find me there and never know my name, my meaning, nor the treasure of my escape.”
Mickey Rourke - Henry

“- Harry Angel: What's your name?
- Epiphany Proudfoot: Epiphany Proudfoot.
- Harry Angel: Your mother left you a very beautiful name, Epiphany.
- Epiphany Proudfoot: Not much else.”
Mickey Rourke - Harry Angel
Lisa Bonet - Epiphany Proudfoot

“- Tracy Tzu: You're acting like a child.
- Stanley White: Well, a great man is one who in manhood still keeps the heart of a child.”
Ariane - Tracy Tzu
Mickey Rourke - Stanley White

“- Harry Angel: She was doing my chart. I gave her Johnny's birthdate, February 14th. Except someone got to her and took out their own Valentine card. They split her open, and they cut out her heart. I guess she couldn't predict the future for herself.
- Louis Cyphre: The future isn't what it used to be Mr. Angel.”
Mickey Rourke - Harry Angel
Robert De Niro - Louis Cyphre

“- Robert 'Boogie' Sheftell: You know I got plans.
- Bagel: Always a dreamer, Boog?
- Robert 'Boogie' Sheftell: If you don't have good dreams, Bagel, you got nightmares.”
Mickey Rourke - Robert 'Boogie' Sheftell
Michael Tucker - Bagel

“- The Motorcycle Boy: They belong in the river. I don't think they would fight if they were in the river. If they had room to live.
- Patterson the Cop: Someone ought to get you off the streets.
- The Motorcycle Boy: Somebody ought to put the fish in the river.”

Mickey Rourke - The Motorcycle Boy
William Smith - Patterson the Cop

“- John: Every time I see you, you're buying a chicken.
- Elizabeth: Every time I see you, you're smiling at me.”
Mickey Rourke - John
Kim Basinger - Elizabeth

“- Henry: You know, in the guest house, you could write in peace.
- Tully: Hey, Tully baby, nobody who could write worth a damn could ever write in peace, Jesus.”
Mickey Rourke - Henry
Mickey Rourke - Tully

“We all have to lose ourselves sometimes to find ourselves, don't you think?”
Mickey Rourke - James Wheeler

“- Wanda: Maybe he had a reason to kill those people.
- Henry: Yeah well most people think they do.”

Faye Dunaway - Wanda Wilcox
Mickey Rourke - Henry

“- Tully: Why did you send your stuff to us?
- Henry: Well, I liked the title of the mag. It boggled my scrotum.”

Alice Krige - Tully
Mickey Rourke - Henry

“- Louis Bukowski: You care too much, Stanley.
- Stanley White: How can anybody care too much?”
Raymond J. Barry - Louis Bukowski
Mickey Rourke - Stanley White

“- Louis Cyphre: You know, some religions think that the egg is the symbol of the soul, did you know that?
- Harry Angel: No, I didn't know that.
- Louis Cyphre: Would you like an egg?
- Harry Angel: No thank you, I got a thing about chickens.”
Robert De Niro - Louis Cyphre
Mickey Rourke - Harry Angel

“Grow's for plants. I hate roots.”
Mickey Rourke - Henry

“- Louis Cyphre: Are you an atheist?
- Harry Angel: Yes, I am. I'm from Brooklyn.”
Robert De Niro - Louis Cyphre
Mickey Rourke - Harry Angel

“- Robert 'Boogie' Sheftell: It was an accident.
- Carol Heathrow: An accident?
- Robert 'Boogie' Sheftell: Carol, seriously, it was an accident. I swear to God.
- Carol Heathrow: An accident? Your thing just got into a box of popcorn?”
Mickey Rourke - Robert 'Boogie' Sheftell
Colette Blonigan - Carol Heathrow

“- Edward 'Eddie' Simmons: Do you think I'm doing the right thing, gettin' married?
- Robert 'Boogie' Sheftell: Eddie, I can't tell you that.
- Edward 'Eddie' Simmons: I keep thinkin' that I'm gonna be missin' out on things, you know.
- Robert 'Boogie' Sheftell: That's what marriage is all about.”
Steve Guttenberg - Edward 'Eddie' Simmons
Mickey Rourke - Robert 'Boogie' Sheftell