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.
SYLVESTER STALLONEAll 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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If you don’t have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life.
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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 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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Once in one’s life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived.
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A lot of guys don’t want to admit that they have a propensity for generosity and for violence.
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I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.
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I’m more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time.
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Gangster is the truest friend I can ever ask for.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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I know I’m incredibly unpredictable, and that’s the only thing I’m sure of.
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Your spiritual sense will make you either a winner or a loser.
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When I tried to branch out into comedy, I didn’t do very well at it, so I went back to doing what I do naturally well, or what the audience expects from me – action pictures.
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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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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’m not a genetically superior person. I built my body.
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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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You are what you leave behind.
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The more I go to church and the more I turn myself over to the process of believing in Jesus and listening to His Word and having Him guide my hand, I feel as though the pressure is off me now.
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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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I’m the Hiroshima of love.
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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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