Study people’s success stories hard. Study their failures even harder.
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.
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I tell people diets don’t work. And I don’t care what they say. I have tried them all.
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I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.
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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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Voices are like fingerprints, from Cagney to Bogart. They never lost it. My voice is instrumental in categorizing me.
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Ya gotta do what ya gotta do.
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Everybody has anger or regret in them one way or another. They all try different things to get it out. Some people go to psychiatrists. Some paint pictures. Some people talk it out.
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You’re a disease. And I’m the cure.
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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.
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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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Boxing is a great exercise as long as you can yell “cut” whenever you want to.
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Characters I’ve played, they used to impact my paintings, like 80 percent of the time, and especially when I was doing an action film.
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I thought marriage was tough. Golf’s like going over Niagara Falls in a barrel! It’s a psychological game that gets into your blood.
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The problem is, your ego sometimes tells you that you can do many things. But sometimes it’s best to stay focused and be honest with yourself.
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I respect a woman too much to marry her.
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There’s a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone.
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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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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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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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When you’re an actor, you’re a slave to other people’s visions.
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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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Gangster is the truest friend I can ever ask for.
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If you express yourself too much, you’re considered weak.
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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.
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When crossing someone’s borders you have to be prepared to engage in a war that is far more brutal than if it were to take place on neutral territory.
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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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Your spiritual sense will make you either a winner or a loser.
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