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.
SYLVESTER STALLONEMaking 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.
More Sylvester Stallone Quotes
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Study people’s success stories hard. Study their failures even harder.
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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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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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Time is truly the great enemy. It’s not the great healer, it’s the great stealer.
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If you express yourself too much, you’re considered weak.
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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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I’ve had a lot of operations. I’m kind of like Franken-actor.
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Voices are like fingerprints, from Cagney to Bogart. They never lost it. My voice is instrumental in categorizing me.
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I watch a lot of news, and I watch musical shows because I think the music of the young people is really their news reports. They let you know how their country is going through their eyes, and about their experiences in the everyday shock of growing up.
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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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Theater is like boxing – having the audience ringside. It’s instant gratification. Or horrification.
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Every time I’ve failed, people had me out for the count, but I always come back.
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Most action is based on redemption and revenge, and that’s a formula. Moby Dick was formula. It’s how you get to the conclusion that makes it interesting.
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I don’t fall into the physical manifestation of a man of letters. So I guess people assume the scripts are delivered to me under the door.
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Consider the source, Don’t be a fool by listening to a fool.
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