The way to be successful in Hollywood is to be as obnoxious as the next guy.
SYLVESTER STALLONEYou have to grab life by the throat and squeeze before it grabs you by your neck and breaks it. Own your destiny.
More Sylvester Stallone Quotes
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I believe there’s an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.
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Making a movie is the same as an orchestra; it’s moving all the different instruments and the sounds, the kinetic and the auditory and the visual all together. I’m probably the trombone.
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Don’t be gullible, use life before it uses you. Understand there are no free lunches, and for every action you take, there’s a reaction.
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Gangster is the truest friend I can ever ask for.
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I think that’s become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family – a statement – and you can afford it, then that’s a noble project.
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Characters I’ve played, they used to impact my paintings, like 80 percent of the time, and especially when I was doing an action film.
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Once in one’s life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived.
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Some actors are brilliant character guys. They submerge.
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I’m more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time.
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I think I’m a much better painter than an actor.
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To know that the odds are so high that only through the perishing of your life will the minions survive, that’s love. That’s heroism.
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I was an ambitious child and I tended to be scatterbrained. If I was at school and saw a bird outside the window I wanted to follow it. I was adventurous.
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I have a fear of heights that borders on mania.
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Ya gotta do what ya gotta do.
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Clichés are what good writing is all about. Because our lives are basically clichés.
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