Michael Rooker Quotes

Don't mess with me! I'm a black-belt!

When you think of it I haven't really done a lot of horror. It's amazing: I have done some really good ones, but I haven't done a lot of them.

Time is definitely money, so if you screw up a day or a shot, you may not get a chance to go back and get that shot and redo that day.

I already survived one apocalypse, I don't need another.

I don't approach a role by saying I'll be unsavory or unlikable. I think all the roles I've done have been very passionate people who go to absolute extremes to make their points.

I've always wanted to play a teacher.

You know how it is, somebody will see your work and like it and remember it, then decide to make it a role in their film.

It's a super super strange world when the actors are the less weird ones.

I don't approach a role by saying I'll be unsavory or unlikable.

Every time I was cast in a role, the director put a gun in my hand, so I figured I’d better learn how to use one. Then I found out I really liked it.

Horror fans need horror, okay? They don't need little worms squirming around going down your throat. To them, that's not horror.

'Cliffhanger' got me in the best shape of my life, working at 10,000 feet up in the mountains. And everybody was great. I lived in Italy for seven months doing that movie. It was a great vacation.