I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.
SYLVESTER STALLONEI respect a woman too much to marry her.
More Sylvester Stallone Quotes
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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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I’ve had a lot of operations. I’m kind of like Franken-actor.
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Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.
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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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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.
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Time is truly the great enemy. It’s not the great healer, it’s the great stealer.
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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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All young men want to prove themselves.
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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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I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.
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Movies are a whole different ball-game, now. It’s much more of a business – very scientific.
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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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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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You’ve got to show your soul otherwise you’re just a piece of equipment.
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Plan B. You’ve always got to have a Plan B.
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Through failure, I found different ways to reverse my problems and get into the mainstream of Hollywood.
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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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The 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.
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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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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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When you’re an actor, you’re a slave to other people’s visions.
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At the very end, the one person who Rambo should kill, he doesn’t kill. He lets it live. Because you can’t kill that kind of hypocritical bureaucracy. It goes on forever.
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I’m perceived to be this solitary character, but nothing could be further from the truth.
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People think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in sight.
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Your spiritual sense will make you either a winner or a loser.
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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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