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.
SYLVESTER STALLONEI’m a big believer that, in life, we can’t succeed in everything. Most times, we lose.
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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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I think everyone has a certain kind of formula in their life. When you deviate from that formula, you’re going to fail big or you’re gonna win big.
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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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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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Every generation has to find their own heroes.
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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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I know I’m incredibly unpredictable, and that’s the only thing I’m sure of.
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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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All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves.
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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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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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I’m a patriot of the heart.
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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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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’m more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time.
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