The way to be successful in Hollywood is to be as obnoxious as the next guy.
SYLVESTER STALLONETo 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.
More Sylvester Stallone Quotes
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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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I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.
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All young men want to prove themselves.
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Characters I’ve played, they used to impact my paintings, like 80 percent of the time, and especially when I was doing an action film.
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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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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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Going in one more round when you don’t think you can – that’s what makes all the difference in your life.
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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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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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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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Voices are like fingerprints, from Cagney to Bogart. They never lost it. My voice is instrumental in categorizing me.
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Rambo isn’t violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist.
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I’ve had a lot of operations. I’m kind of like Franken-actor.
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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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I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.
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