I’m more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time.
SYLVESTER STALLONEThe only thing that I haven’t done is perform brain surgery on myself. I’ve been very, very lucky. I’ve spared Shakespeare undue stress by not doing that.
More Sylvester Stallone Quotes
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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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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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I’m not a genetically superior person. I built my body.
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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’m a patriot of the heart.
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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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Most action is based on redemption and revenge, and that’s a formula. Moby Dick was formula. It’s how you get to the conclusion that makes it interesting.
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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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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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Don’t discuss your dreams. Pursue them!
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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’m a big believer that, in life, we can’t succeed in everything. Most times, we lose.
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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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Every generation has to find their own heroes.
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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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I tell people diets don’t work. And I don’t care what they say. I have tried them all.
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All young men want to prove themselves.
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Your spiritual sense will make you either a winner or a loser.
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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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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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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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We do two things in life: We race the clock and everything is a struggle. One way or not, it’s a metaphorical battle all of the time.
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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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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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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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You’re a disease. And I’m the cure.
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