I’m perceived to be this solitary character, but nothing could be further from the truth.
SYLVESTER STALLONEWhen I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn’t expect me in comedies or musicals.
More Sylvester Stallone Quotes
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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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People think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in sight.
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Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.
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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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I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.
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I think kids growing up, if they were picked on and feeling inferior at 12, they’re going to feel that way at 72. You just deal with it better. I’m serious.
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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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Nothing is real if you don’t believe in who you are!
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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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I’m not a genetically superior person. I built my body.
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I made some truly awful movies. ‘Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot’ was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes.
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All young men want to prove themselves.
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No one will hit you harder than life itself. It doesn’t matter how hard you hit back. It’s about how much you can take, and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward. That’s how you win.
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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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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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