MICKEY ROURKE - BACK TO ROCK HOLLYWOOD:

Striking a pose. Winning the category BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE, DRAMA for his role in A THE WRESTLER, actor Mickey Rourke poses backstage in the press room with his Golden Globe Award at the 66th Annual Golden Globe ® Awards 2009 at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, CA Sunday, January 11, 2009.

MICKY ROURKE GIVES ADVICE TO UP AND COMING ACTORS:

"I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing...Being out of work 13, 14 years like I did, don't walk that road. I put four or five years into studying like a monk and being the best actor I could, then I self-destructed. I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career wise...It took me 10 years in therapy to change my ways," he continues, "You can find out the hard way that maybe you can get away with that s--t when you're in your twenties, but when Hollywood closes the door on you, there's not many guys who can be out of work 13 or 14 years that they're going to give a second chance to."

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