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Nothing’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.

Sylvester Stallone

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I try to eliminate as much dialogue as possible, and I guess Rambo is my really best experiment with how to eliminate dialogue.
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Elimination Experiment Myself Possible
Boxing is a great exercise as long as you can yell “cut” whenever you want to.
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Exercise Greatness Yourself
Plan B. You’ve always got to have a Plan B.
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Choice Option Planning Yourself
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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Battle Life Race Struggle Time Way
I was an insecure kid. Once I saw ‘Hercules’ with Steve Reeves, it completely changed my life. If I had never gone to that film, I wouldn’t be here today.
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Change Complete Insecurity Movie Myself
Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but the loyalty never fades.
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Absolute Fade Love Loyalty People
Life’s not about how hard of a hit you can give, it’s about how many you can take, and still keep moving forward.
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Endurance Hard Inspirational Life Move Yourself
I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.
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Action Goodness Moral Movie Myself Play Thinking Triumph
A lot of guys don’t want to admit that they have a propensity for generosity and for violence.
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Generosity Man Myself Violence
In the movies, I kill guys with an axe. In real life, I can’t control a nine-year-old girl.
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Control Life Movie Myself Reality
I’m a big believer that, in life, we can’t succeed in everything. Most times, we lose.
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Believe Big Lose Success Time
Rocky’ represents the optimistic side of life, and ‘Rambo’ represents purgatory.
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Life Optimism Representation
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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End Forever Hypocrisy Kill Kind Live Person
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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Endurance Fight Hard Inspirational Life Move Oneself Suffering Win Yourself
Through failure, I found different ways to reverse my problems and get into the mainstream of Hollywood.
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Different Failure Hollywood Myself Problem Reverse
I really am a manifestation of my own fantasy.
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Fantasy Manifestation Myself
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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Confession Mom Movie Myself Stop True
Clothing is the first step to building a character.
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Character Clothes Oneself Step
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.
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Action Freedom Life Lunch Reaction Understand Yourself
The way to be successful in Hollywood is to be as obnoxious as the next guy.
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Character Hollywood Success Way
When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.
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End Myself School Student Teaching Vote
I think everyone has a certain kind of formula in their life. When you deviate from that formula, you’re going to fail big or you’re gonna win big.
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Big Failure Formula Kind Myself Thinking Win
Movies are the work of a collective conscious. It takes 500-800 people on a movie to complete a vision.
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Collection Complete Conscious Movie People Vision Work
Voices are like fingerprints, from Cagney to Bogart. They never lost it. My voice is instrumental in categorizing me.
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Category Instrument Lost Myself Voice
When crossing someone’s borders you have to be prepared to engage in a war that is far more brutal than if it were to take place on neutral territory.
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Border Brutal Cross Engagement Preparation Territory
Characters I’ve played, they used to impact my paintings, like 80 percent of the time, and especially when I was doing an action film.
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Action Character Impact Movie Play Time
Gangster is the truest friend I can ever ask for.
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Friendship Myself True

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