#de

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. ↗

— Mickey Rourke

#academy awards #after #areas #awards #being

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#expect #gratitude #none #ought #paid

Death is easy. To live is the most painful thing I could imagine and im weak and no longer willing to fight. ↗

— Hannah Wright

#death

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. ↗

— Mickey Rourke

#actor #ahead #am #been #best

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

— Mickey Rourke

#anger #came #had #i #inside

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. ↗

— Mickey Rourke

#back #day #directors #fix #fun

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#contrary #essays #his #i #i write

Whatever ought to be, can be. ↗

— James Rouse

#ought #whatever

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#death #image #leads #sadness #silence

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide? ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#escape #ever #every #every man #fire