Don’t be gullible, use life before it uses you. Understand there are no free lunches, and for every action you take, there’s a reaction.
SYLVESTER STALLONENothing’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.
More Sylvester Stallone Quotes
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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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I love being verbal in films.
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Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.
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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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I think that’s become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family – a statement – and you can afford it, then that’s a noble project.
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I really am a manifestation of my own fantasy.
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I thought marriage was tough. Golf’s like going over Niagara Falls in a barrel! It’s a psychological game that gets into your blood.
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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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Study people’s success stories hard. Study their failures even harder.
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If you’re gonna be a failure, at least be one at something you enjoy.
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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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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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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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I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.
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You 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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