Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that’s just the way it is.
SYLVESTER STALLONEI am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager.
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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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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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Now if you know what you’re worth. Then go out and get what you’re worth.
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At the very end, the one person who Rambo should kill, he doesn’t kill. He lets it live. Because you can’t kill that kind of hypocritical bureaucracy. It goes on forever.
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When life hits you pretty hard, you can go into a dark corner.
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If you express yourself too much, you’re considered weak.
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Most action is based on redemption and revenge, and that’s a formula. Moby Dick was formula. It’s how you get to the conclusion that makes it interesting.
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I have a fear of heights that borders on mania.
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I’m perceived to be this solitary character, but nothing could be further from the truth.
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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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Ya gotta do what ya gotta do.
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The church is the gym of the soul.
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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’m more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time.
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I was an ambitious child and I tended to be scatterbrained. If I was at school and saw a bird outside the window I wanted to follow it. I was adventurous.
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The older I get the more things I gotta leave behind.
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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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Boxing is a great exercise as long as you can yell “cut” whenever you want to.
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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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That’s what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.
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Gangster is the truest friend I can ever ask for.
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Testosterone to me is so important for a sense of well-being when you get older.
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The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can’t change. After I die, I’ll probably come back as a paintbrush.
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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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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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I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.
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