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 STALLONEIf you look back at life, I bet you will regret about 80% of your actions. But life consists of all mistakes.
More Sylvester Stallone Quotes
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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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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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Voices are like fingerprints, from Cagney to Bogart. They never lost it. My voice is instrumental in categorizing me.
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All young men want to prove themselves.
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To me, the most perfect screenplay ever written will be one word, when you finally reduce it down to that. Until then, writing will be an imperfect form of communication.
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When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.
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You are what you leave behind.
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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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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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Real love is when you become selfless and you are more concerned about your mate’s or children’s egos than your own. You’re now a giver instead of a taker.
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Movies are the work of a collective conscious. It takes 500-800 people on a movie to complete a vision.
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Your spiritual sense will make you either a winner or a loser.
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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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You’ve got to show your soul otherwise you’re just a piece of equipment.
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I realized, the older I get, the more difficult life becomes. It’s not easier, it’s more difficult.
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I’m the Hiroshima of love.
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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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Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but the loyalty never fades.
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I respect a woman too much to marry her.
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I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.
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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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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.
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Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.
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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 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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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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