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Sylvester Stallone

That’s what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.
SYLVESTER STALLONE

Burden Pride Reputation
I’m not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren’t straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.
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Classical Eyes Myself Voice Work
Theater is like boxing – having the audience ringside. It’s instant gratification. Or horrification.
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Audience Horrible Instant Theatre
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.
SYLVESTER STALLONE

Communication Myself Perfection Word Writing
If you express yourself too much, you’re considered weak.
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Expression Weakness Yourself
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
It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.
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Avoid Compassionate Failure Fire Generosity Greatness Success Wonderful
Don’t be gullible, use life before it uses you. Understand there are no free lunches, and for every action you take, there’s a reaction.
SYLVESTER STALLONE

Action Freedom Life Lunch Reaction Understand Yourself
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
Testosterone to me is so important for a sense of well-being when you get older.
SYLVESTER STALLONE

Age Important Old Time Yourself
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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Heroism High Life Love Survive Yourself
You’ve got to show your soul otherwise you’re just a piece of equipment.
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Equipment Pieces Soul Yourself
I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.
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Expectation Future Greatness High Past
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
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
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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Myself Performance Stress Surgery

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