Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.
SYLVESTER STALLONESuccess is usually the culmination of controlling failure.
SYLVESTER STALLONEI 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.
SYLVESTER STALLONENo 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.
SYLVESTER STALLONEI’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.
SYLVESTER STALLONEThrough failure, I found different ways to reverse my problems and get into the mainstream of Hollywood.
SYLVESTER STALLONEI 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.
SYLVESTER STALLONEI’m a big believer that, in life, we can’t succeed in everything. Most times, we lose.
SYLVESTER STALLONEMaking 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.
SYLVESTER STALLONEI try to eliminate as much dialogue as possible, and I guess Rambo is my really best experiment with how to eliminate dialogue.
SYLVESTER STALLONEI know I’m incredibly unpredictable, and that’s the only thing I’m sure of.
SYLVESTER STALLONEWith a lot of comedians, one of their major attributes is that they look comedic, with a certain hangdog or manic expression. I look like the neighborhood bully. That doesn’t elicit laughter.
SYLVESTER STALLONEI tell people diets don’t work. And I don’t care what they say. I have tried them all.
SYLVESTER STALLONETo know that the odds are so high that only through the perishing of your life will the minions survive, that’s love. That’s heroism.
SYLVESTER STALLONEI’m perceived to be this solitary character, but nothing could be further from the truth.
SYLVESTER STALLONEThere’s a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone.
SYLVESTER STALLONEYou 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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