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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.

Sylvester Stallone

Don’t discuss your dreams. Pursue them!
SYLVESTER STALLONE

Discussion Dreams Pursue Yourself
I was an insecure kid. Once I saw ‘Hercules’ with Steve Reeves, it completely changed my life. If I had never gone to that film, I wouldn’t be here today.
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Change Complete Insecurity Movie Myself
Rocky’ represents the optimistic side of life, and ‘Rambo’ represents purgatory.
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Life Optimism Representation
With 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.
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Attribute Comedy Elicit Expression Laughter
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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Children Feeling Myself Serious Thinking Way Yourself
When you’re an actor, you’re a slave to other people’s visions.
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Actor People Slave Vision Yourself
No one will hit you harder than life itself. It doesn’t matter how hard you hit back. It’s about how much you can take, and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward. That’s how you win.
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Endurance Fight Hard Inspirational Life Move Oneself Suffering Win Yourself
I’m perceived to be this solitary character, but nothing could be further from the truth.
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Character Further Myself Truth
You’ve got to show your soul otherwise you’re just a piece of equipment.
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Equipment Pieces Soul Yourself
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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Happiness Myself Old People Pursue
I’ve had a lot of operations. I’m kind of like Franken-actor.
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Kind Myself Operation
When you find the right components in your life, the right people, that gel with you, then you feel as though you’re invincible. It may be a fallacy, but you at least feel as though you can take all that life has to dish out.
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Component Feeling Life People Right Yourself
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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Audience Comedy Expectation Myself Natural Photograph
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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Confession Mom Movie Myself Stop True
I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.
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Expectation Future Greatness High Past
Theater is like boxing – having the audience ringside. It’s instant gratification. Or horrification.
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Audience Horrible Instant Theatre

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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