In the movies, I kill guys with an axe. In real life, I can’t control a nine-year-old girl.
SYLVESTER STALLONEI’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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Movies are the work of a collective conscious. It takes 500-800 people on a movie to complete a vision.
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When you’re pushed killing is as easy as breathing.
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I’m a big believer that, in life, we can’t succeed in everything. Most times, we lose.
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When you’re scared, when you’re hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you’re going to see what you’re really made of.
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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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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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You’ve got to show your soul otherwise you’re just a piece of equipment.
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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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I know I’m incredibly unpredictable, and that’s the only thing I’m sure of.
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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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Movies are a whole different ball-game, now. It’s much more of a business – very scientific.
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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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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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The older I get the more things I gotta leave behind.
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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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