Boxing is a great exercise as long as you can yell “cut” whenever you want to.
SYLVESTER STALLONEI 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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When you’re an actor, you’re a slave to other people’s visions.
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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.
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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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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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Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that’s just the way it is.
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Now if you know what you’re worth. Then go out and get what you’re worth.
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I wanted to show I had balls at age 60. Just because society says I’m old, doesn’t mean that I am. I’m pursuing happiness, even if it makes the people around me unhappy.
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You’ve got to show your soul otherwise you’re just a piece of equipment.
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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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Age is a state of old mind. It gets to a point where if you get old enough, you forget how old you are, and that’s the best thing. And then you walk around kind of like in a fog.
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When you find the right components in your life, the right people, that gel with you, then you feel as though you’re invincible. It may be a fallacy, but you at least feel as though you can take all that life has to dish out.
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I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.
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Movies are a collective art. Art by proxy.
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Plan B. You’ve always got to have a Plan B.
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You have to have an almost boundless reservoir of energy and interest to enter politics because quite often it’s thankless and fruitless and you can’t accomplish much.
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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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Voices are like fingerprints, from Cagney to Bogart. They never lost it. My voice is instrumental in categorizing me.
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Movies are the work of a collective conscious. It takes 500-800 people on a movie to complete a vision.
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Theater is like boxing – having the audience ringside. It’s instant gratification. Or horrification.
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Going in one more round when you don’t think you can – that’s what makes all the difference in your life.
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All young men want to prove themselves.
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I learned the real meaning of love. Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people, you can set your watch by them. And that’s love, even if it doesn’t seem very exciting.
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I tell people diets don’t work. And I don’t care what they say. I have tried them all.
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I realized, the older I get, the more difficult life becomes. It’s not easier, it’s more difficult.
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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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Like I said, I’ve got too much respect for women to marry them, but that doesn’t mean you can’t support them emotionally and financially.
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