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.
SYLVESTER STALLONEWith a lot of comedians, one of their major attributes is that they look comedic, with a certain hangdog or manic expression. I look like the neighborhood bully. That doesn’t elicit laughter.
More Sylvester Stallone Quotes
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I’m a patriot of the heart.
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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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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 have tons of regrets, but I think that’s one of the reasons that push people to create things. Out of their angst, their regret, comes the best from artists, painters and writers.
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To me, the most perfect screenplay ever written will be one word, when you finally reduce it down to that. Until then, writing will be an imperfect form of communication.
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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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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 thought marriage was tough. Golf’s like going over Niagara Falls in a barrel! It’s a psychological game that gets into your blood.
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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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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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Boxing is a great exercise as long as you can yell “cut” whenever you want to.
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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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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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I’m not a genetically superior person. I built my body.
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When life hits you pretty hard, you can go into a dark corner.
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