In the movies, I kill guys with an axe. In real life, I can’t control a nine-year-old girl.
SYLVESTER STALLONEFor every guy, there is an opportunity to be a lot better than he thought he could be. We can’t all be the star of the team, but we can be a star in our life. That’s where you set your goal.
More Sylvester Stallone Quotes
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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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If bad decorating was a hanging offense, there’d be bodies hanging from every tree!
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Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.
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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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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.
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Clothing is the first step to building a character.
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I have two lovely sons and some good memories, but I’ve had a rather tumultuous personal life. It hasn’t been dull; I’ve been the Hiroshima of love.
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Don’t discuss your dreams. Pursue them!
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Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.
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If you express yourself too much, you’re considered weak.
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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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Rocky’ represents the optimistic side of life, and ‘Rambo’ represents purgatory.
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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 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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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 tell people diets don’t work. And I don’t care what they say. I have tried them all.
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If you don’t have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life.
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I watch a lot of news, and I watch musical shows because I think the music of the young people is really their news reports. They let you know how their country is going through their eyes, and about their experiences in the everyday shock of growing up.
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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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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 thought I had reached a point in life where everything would be smooth. But it is not. It just gets more jagged and pitted and filled with turns that take you into the dark recesses of your mind. It never seems to get easy.
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A lot of guys don’t want to admit that they have a propensity for generosity and for violence.
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If you’re willing to take the humiliation of sticking your head above the crowd, maybe it’s, you know, the pleasure will be worth the pain.
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When I tried to branch out into comedy, I didn’t do very well at it, so I went back to doing what I do naturally well, or what the audience expects from me – action pictures.
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Every time I’ve failed, people had me out for the count, but I always come back.
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