I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.
SYLVESTER STALLONEEvery champion was once a contender that refused to give up.
More Sylvester Stallone Quotes
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If you’re gonna be a failure, at least be one at something you enjoy.
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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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I’ve had a lot of operations. I’m kind of like Franken-actor.
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Rambo isn’t violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist.
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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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Time is truly the great enemy. It’s not the great healer, it’s the great stealer.
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I’d rather do something I love badly than to feel bad about not doing something I love.
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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.
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Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but the loyalty never fades.
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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.
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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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You’re a disease. And I’m the cure.
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Testosterone to me is so important for a sense of well-being when you get older.
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I believe there’s an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.
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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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Gangster is the truest friend I can ever ask for.
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Now if you know what you’re worth. Then go out and get what you’re worth.
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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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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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I think there comes a time when you realize that you need God in your life, God’s Word, and the spiritual guidance that only He can give.
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When you’re pushed killing is as easy as breathing.
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Movies are a whole different ball-game, now. It’s much more of a business – very scientific.
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When you’re an actor, you’re a slave to other people’s visions.
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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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That’s what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.
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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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