Theater is like boxing – having the audience ringside. It’s instant gratification. Or horrification.
SYLVESTER STALLONEWhen you’re an actor, you’re a slave to other people’s visions.
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When you find the right components in your life, the right people, that gel with you, then you feel as though you’re invincible. It may be a fallacy, but you at least feel as though you can take all that life has to dish out.
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Age is a state of old mind. It gets to a point where if you get old enough, you forget how old you are, and that’s the best thing. And then you walk around kind of like in a fog.
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I have a fear of heights that borders on mania.
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I thought I had reached a point in life where everything would be smooth. But it is not. It just gets more jagged and pitted and filled with turns that take you into the dark recesses of your mind. It never seems to get easy.
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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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There’s a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone.
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If you express yourself too much, you’re considered weak.
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A lot of guys don’t want to admit that they have a propensity for generosity and for violence.
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Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.
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At 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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When you’re pushed killing is as easy as breathing.
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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 believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.
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Don’t discuss your dreams. Pursue them!
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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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I’m not a genetically superior person. I built my body.
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I was an ambitious child and I tended to be scatterbrained. If I was at school and saw a bird outside the window I wanted to follow it. I was adventurous.
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If you’re gonna be a failure, at least be one at something you enjoy.
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You are what you leave behind.
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Consider the source, Don’t be a fool by listening to a fool.
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If you don’t have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life.
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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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To know that the odds are so high that only through the perishing of your life will the minions survive, that’s love. That’s heroism.
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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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The way to be successful in Hollywood is to be as obnoxious as the next guy.
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Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that’s just the way it is.
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