Mickey Rourke Biography

- Rourke has at least seven tattoos including a tiger head with Chinese symbols on his left shoulder, a bulls skull on his right bicep, and a shamrock on his left forearm.

- Kim Basinger once called him “the human ashtray”.

- Rourke filmed a role in The Thin Red Line (1998) that eventually got cut. He gets thanked in the credits.

- Rourke was first considered for the role of Axel Foley in Beverly Hills Cop (1984). It was eventually passed on to Sylvester Stallone, and after many script revisions finally to Eddie Murphy.

- Rourke has admitted in interviews that he only made Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991) for the money.