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Clichés are what good writing is all about. Because our lives are basically clichés.

Sylvester Stallone

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.
SYLVESTER STALLONE

Comparison Editor Hard Ideas People Sound Support Writing Yourself
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.
SYLVESTER STALLONE

Age Best Kind Mindset Old Point State Yourself
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.
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Character Comedy End Musician Myself People Play Try
Time is truly the great enemy. It’s not the great healer, it’s the great stealer.
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Deep Enemy Greatness Healing Perspective Steal Time True
I try to eliminate as much dialogue as possible, and I guess Rambo is my really best experiment with how to eliminate dialogue.
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Elimination Experiment Myself Possible
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.
SYLVESTER STALLONE

Creation Different Instrument Movie Myself Sound Togetherness Visual
That’s what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.
SYLVESTER STALLONE

Burden Pride Reputation
Rambo isn’t violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist.
SYLVESTER STALLONE

Myself Perspective Philanthropy Violence
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.
SYLVESTER STALLONE

Change Complete Insecurity Movie Myself
All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves.
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Actor Crazy Goodness People Play Prediction Secure
I think everyone has a certain kind of formula in their life. When you deviate from that formula, you’re going to fail big or you’re gonna win big.
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Big Failure Formula Kind Myself Thinking Win
I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.
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Believe Blind Myself Optimism Success
Every time I’ve failed, people had me out for the count, but I always come back.
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Count Failure Myself People Time
If you express yourself too much, you’re considered weak.
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Expression Weakness Yourself
I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.
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Action Goodness Moral Movie Myself Play Thinking Triumph
Suddenly I’ve got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.
SYLVESTER STALLONE

Art Classical Desire Myself Romantic Surround

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