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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

I’m a patriot of the heart.
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Heart Myself Patriot
Nothing’s harder than writing. There’s no comparison. With directing, you can bounce a lot of ideas around. There’s tremendous support – you’ve got editors and sound mixers. With writing, it’s all you, and it’s just crippling when people tear up your pages.
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Comparison Editor Hard Ideas People Sound Support Writing Yourself
A lot of guys don’t want to admit that they have a propensity for generosity and for violence.
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Generosity Man Myself Violence
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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Goodness Life Love Myself Personal Son
Movies are the work of a collective conscious. It takes 500-800 people on a movie to complete a vision.
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Collection Complete Conscious Movie People Vision Work
Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.
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Control Failure Success
I tell people diets don’t work. And I don’t care what they say. I have tried them all.
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Diet Myself People Work
I think there comes a time when you realize that you need God in your life, God’s Word, and the spiritual guidance that only He can give.
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Guidance Realization Spiritual Thinking Time Yourself
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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Battle Life Race Struggle Time Way
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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Fire Kind People Retirement Sight Yourself
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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Artist Change Death Happiness Paint Yourself
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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End Himself Love Reach Story
I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I’ve just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it’s not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.
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Art Change Decision Greatness Master Mood Myself
When life hits you pretty hard, you can go into a dark corner.
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Corner Darkness Hard Life Yourself
Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that’s just the way it is.
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Action See Way
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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Excitement Fade Learning Love Loyalty Meaning Myself Reality Watch
Gangster is the truest friend I can ever ask for.
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Friendship Myself True
Life’s not about how hard of a hit you can give, it’s about how many you can take, and still keep moving forward.
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Endurance Hard Inspirational Life Move Yourself
I’m a big believer that, in life, we can’t succeed in everything. Most times, we lose.
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Believe Big Lose Success Time
Theater is like boxing – having the audience ringside. It’s instant gratification. Or horrification.
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Audience Horrible Instant Theatre
All young men want to prove themselves.
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Evidence Man Young
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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Darkness Easy Life Mindset Myself Point Reach Smooth Thinking
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 think I’m a much better painter than an actor.
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Actor Artist Better Myself Painting Thinking
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
Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but the loyalty never fades.
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Absolute Fade Love Loyalty People
In the movies, I kill guys with an axe. In real life, I can’t control a nine-year-old girl.
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Control Life Movie Myself Reality

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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