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When you’re an actor, you’re a slave to other people’s visions.

Sylvester Stallone

When I tried to branch out into comedy, I didn’t do very well at it, so I went back to doing what I do naturally well, or what the audience expects from me – action pictures.
SYLVESTER STALLONE

Audience Comedy Expectation Myself Natural Photograph
The only thing that I haven’t done is perform brain surgery on myself. I’ve been very, very lucky. I’ve spared Shakespeare undue stress by not doing that.
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Myself Performance Stress Surgery
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.
SYLVESTER STALLONE

Blood Game Golf Marriage Tough Yourself
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.
SYLVESTER STALLONE

Endurance Fight Hard Inspirational Life Move Oneself Suffering Win Yourself
Everybody has anger or regret in them one way or another. They all try different things to get it out. Some people go to psychiatrists. Some paint pictures. Some people talk it out.
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Angry Artist Different Oneself People Regret Talk Therapy Way
Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.
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Control Failure Success
I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.
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Expectation Future Greatness High Past
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.
SYLVESTER STALLONE

Happiness Myself Old People Pursue
I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.
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Blow Myself Rejection Treat Wake Up
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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Believe Hands Listening Myself Pressure Process Religious
Going in one more round when you don’t think you can – that’s what makes all the difference in your life.
SYLVESTER STALLONE

Difference Give Up Inspirational Life Thinking Try Yourself
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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Artist Change Death Happiness Paint Yourself
With 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 STALLONE

Attribute Comedy Elicit Expression Laughter
Clothing is the first step to building a character.
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Character Clothes Oneself Step
Study people’s success stories hard. Study their failures even harder.
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Failure Hard People Story Success
I am not the richest, smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and going and going.
SYLVESTER STALLONE

Myself Person Resilience Rich Smart Talent World

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