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You have to grab life by the throat and squeeze before it grabs you by your neck and breaks it. Own your destiny.

Sylvester Stallone

When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn’t expect me in comedies or musicals.
SYLVESTER STALLONE

Character Comedy End Musician Myself People Play Try
Nothing’s harder than writing. There’s no comparison. With directing, you can bounce a lot of ideas around. There’s tremendous support – you’ve got editors and sound mixers. With writing, it’s all you, and it’s just crippling when people tear up your pages.
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Comparison Editor Hard Ideas People Sound Support Writing Yourself
When you’re scared, when you’re hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you’re going to see what you’re really made of.
SYLVESTER STALLONE

Hurt Inspirational Life Scare See Yourself
Movies are a whole different ball-game, now. It’s much more of a business – very scientific.
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Business Different Game Movie Scientific
If it’s not broken, break it. That’s how new discoveries are made. That’s why everything that changes life is called a breakthrough.
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Break Change Discover Life
I think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains do become valleys after a while if you keep on walking.
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Career Gravity Mountain Thinking Walk Yourself
If you’re gonna be a failure, at least be one at something you enjoy.
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Enjoyment Failure Oneself Yourself
I don’t fall into the physical manifestation of a man of letters. So I guess people assume the scripts are delivered to me under the door.
SYLVESTER STALLONE

Deliver Fall Letter Man Manifestation Myself Physical
I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.
SYLVESTER STALLONE

Blow Myself Rejection Treat Wake Up
I made some truly awful movies. ‘Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot’ was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes.
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Confession Mom Movie Myself Stop True
When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.
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End Myself School Student Teaching Vote
I have a fear of heights that borders on mania.
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Border Fear Height Myself
I tell people diets don’t work. And I don’t care what they say. I have tried them all.
SYLVESTER STALLONE

Diet Myself People Work
Artists die twice. First creatively. Then physically. The second one is the easiest.
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Artist Creativity Death Easy Oneself
Every generation has to find their own heroes.
SYLVESTER STALLONE

Finding Generation Hero
Plan B. You’ve always got to have a Plan B.
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Choice Option Planning Yourself

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