I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.
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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I’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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I consider myself something of a raconteur. I have a rather audacious sense of humour.
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I tell people diets don’t work. And I don’t care what they say. I have tried them all.
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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 don’t fall into the physical manifestation of a man of letters. So I guess people assume the scripts are delivered to me under the door.
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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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Suddenly I’ve got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.
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Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.
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It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.
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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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Consider the source, Don’t be a fool by listening to a fool.
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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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Through failure, I found different ways to reverse my problems and get into the mainstream of Hollywood.
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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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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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