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.
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.
More Sylvester Stallone Quotes
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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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I respect a woman too much to marry her.
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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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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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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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For every guy, there is an opportunity to be a lot better than he thought he could be. We can’t all be the star of the team, but we can be a star in our life. That’s where you set your goal.
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Clichés are what good writing is all about. Because our lives are basically clichés.
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Rambo isn’t violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist.
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I wanted to show I had balls at age 60. Just because society says I’m old, doesn’t mean that I am. I’m pursuing happiness, even if it makes the people around me unhappy.
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Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.
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Life’s not about how hard of a hit you can give, it’s about how many you can take, and still keep moving forward.
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Making 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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If you’re gonna be a failure, at least be one at something you enjoy.
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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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If you’re willing to take the humiliation of sticking your head above the crowd, maybe it’s, you know, the pleasure will be worth the pain.
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When you’re an actor, you’re a slave to other people’s visions.
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Nothing is real if you don’t believe in who you are!
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Testosterone to me is so important for a sense of well-being when you get older.
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You have to have an almost boundless reservoir of energy and interest to enter politics because quite often it’s thankless and fruitless and you can’t accomplish much.
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Like I said, I’ve got too much respect for women to marry them, but that doesn’t mean you can’t support them emotionally and financially.
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Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.
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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 try to eliminate as much dialogue as possible, and I guess Rambo is my really best experiment with how to eliminate dialogue.
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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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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’d rather do something I love badly than to feel bad about not doing something I love.
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