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.
SYLVESTER STALLONEWhen 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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I’ve been involved in something which was chaotic and insane. All I can say now is that I am, and intend to stay, a single man.
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I thought I had reached a point in life where everything would be smooth. But it is not. It just gets more jagged and pitted and filled with turns that take you into the dark recesses of your mind. It never seems to get easy.
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Plan B. You’ve always got to have a Plan B.
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Study people’s success stories hard. Study their failures even harder.
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I really am a manifestation of my own fantasy.
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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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The older I get the more things I gotta leave behind.
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Clothing is the first step to building a character.
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Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that’s just the way it is.
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Age is a state of old mind. It gets to a point where if you get old enough, you forget how old you are, and that’s the best thing. And then you walk around kind of like in a fog.
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Ya gotta do what ya gotta do.
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Don’t discuss your dreams. Pursue them!
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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.
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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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Movies are the work of a collective conscious. It takes 500-800 people on a movie to complete a vision.
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