Movies are a whole different ball-game, now. It’s much more of a business – very scientific.
SYLVESTER STALLONEI consider myself something of a raconteur. I have a rather audacious sense of humour.
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You have to grab life by the throat and squeeze before it grabs you by your neck and breaks it. Own your destiny.
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The older I get the more things I gotta leave behind.
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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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Don’t discuss your dreams. Pursue them!
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Clothing is the first step to building a character.
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Most action is based on redemption and revenge, and that’s a formula. Moby Dick was formula. It’s how you get to the conclusion that makes it interesting.
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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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Rambo isn’t violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist.
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Remember the mind is your best muscle, BIG ARMS can move rocks, but BIG WORDS can move mountains. Ride the brain train for success.
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I wanted to show I had balls at age 60. Just because society says I’m old, doesn’t mean that I am. I’m pursuing happiness, even if it makes the people around me unhappy.
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When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn’t expect me in comedies or musicals.
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Your spiritual sense will make you either a winner or a loser.
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Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.
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Theater is like boxing – having the audience ringside. It’s instant gratification. Or horrification.
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The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can’t change. After I die, I’ll probably come back as a paintbrush.
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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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Making 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.
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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 watch a lot of news, and I watch musical shows because I think the music of the young people is really their news reports. They let you know how their country is going through their eyes, and about their experiences in the everyday shock of growing up.
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Time is truly the great enemy. It’s not the great healer, it’s the great stealer.
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Movies are a collective art. Art by proxy.
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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 have two lovely sons and some good memories, but I’ve had a rather tumultuous personal life. It hasn’t been dull; I’ve been the Hiroshima of love.
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I’m perceived to be this solitary character, but nothing could be further from the truth.
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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’m a patriot of the heart.
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