I think kids growing up, if they were picked on and feeling inferior at 12, they’re going to feel that way at 72. You just deal with it better. I’m serious.
SYLVESTER STALLONEEvery champion was once a contender that refused to give up.
More Sylvester Stallone Quotes
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If you look back at life, I bet you will regret about 80% of your actions. But life consists of all mistakes.
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When you’re an actor, you’re a slave to other people’s visions.
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It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.
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Testosterone to me is so important for a sense of well-being when you get older.
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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.
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At the end of the day, ‘Rocky’ is a love story, and he could never have reached the final bell without Adrian.
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I respect a woman too much to marry her.
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That’s what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.
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When you’re pushed killing is as easy as breathing.
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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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I’d rather do something I love badly than to feel bad about not doing something I love.
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I’m not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren’t straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.
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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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Clichés are what good writing is all about. Because our lives are basically clichés.
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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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The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can’t change. After I die, I’ll probably come back as a paintbrush.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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I love being verbal in films.
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Ya gotta do what ya gotta do.
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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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