I try to eliminate as much dialogue as possible, and I guess Rambo is my really best experiment with how to eliminate dialogue.
SYLVESTER STALLONEI think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains do become valleys after a while if you keep on walking.
More Sylvester Stallone Quotes
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I’ve had a lot of operations. I’m kind of like Franken-actor.
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We do two things in life: We race the clock and everything is a struggle. One way or not, it’s a metaphorical battle all of the time.
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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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I consider myself something of a raconteur. I have a rather audacious sense of humour.
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People think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in sight.
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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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Most action is based on redemption and revenge, and that’s a formula. Moby Dick was formula. It’s how you get to the conclusion that makes it interesting.
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The older I get the more things I gotta leave behind.
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I think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains do become valleys after a while if you keep on walking.
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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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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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If you’re willing to take the humiliation of sticking your head above the crowd, maybe it’s, you know, the pleasure will be worth the pain.
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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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I made some truly awful movies. ‘Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot’ was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes.
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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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You’ve got to show your soul otherwise you’re just a piece of equipment.
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You’re a disease. And I’m the cure.
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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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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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Life’s not about how hard of a hit you can give, it’s about how many you can take, and still keep moving forward.
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Rambo isn’t violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist.
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Rocky’ represents the optimistic side of life, and ‘Rambo’ represents purgatory.
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The way to be successful in Hollywood is to be as obnoxious as the next guy.
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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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I tell people diets don’t work. And I don’t care what they say. I have tried them all.
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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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