I try to eliminate as much dialogue as possible, and I guess Rambo is my really best experiment with how to eliminate dialogue.
SYLVESTER STALLONEAt the end of the day, ‘Rocky’ is a love story, and he could never have reached the final bell without Adrian.
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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.
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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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Artists die twice. First creatively. Then physically. The second one is the easiest.
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If you look back at life, I bet you will regret about 80% of your actions. But life consists of all mistakes.
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Every time I’ve failed, people had me out for the count, but I always come back.
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Rocky’ represents the optimistic side of life, and ‘Rambo’ represents purgatory.
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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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I’m more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time.
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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’m perceived to be this solitary character, but nothing could be further from the truth.
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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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When you’re scared, when you’re hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you’re going to see what you’re really made of.
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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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All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves.
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Movies are a collective art. Art by proxy.
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