I was an insecure kid. Once I saw ‘Hercules’ with Steve Reeves, it completely changed my life. If I had never gone to that film, I wouldn’t be here today.
SYLVESTER STALLONEI’m a big believer that, in life, we can’t succeed in everything. Most times, we lose.
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Consider the source, Don’t be a fool by listening to a fool.
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No one will hit you harder than life itself. It doesn’t matter how hard you hit back. It’s about how much you can take, and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward. That’s how you win.
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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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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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Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.
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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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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 take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.
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Rocky’ represents the optimistic side of life, and ‘Rambo’ represents purgatory.
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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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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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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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Every generation has to find their own heroes.
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I consider myself something of a raconteur. I have a rather audacious sense of humour.
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I really am a manifestation of my own fantasy.
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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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Movies are a whole different ball-game, now. It’s much more of a business – very scientific.
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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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If it’s not broken, break it. That’s how new discoveries are made. That’s why everything that changes life is called a breakthrough.
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Theater is like boxing – having the audience ringside. It’s instant gratification. Or horrification.
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I have a fear of heights that borders on mania.
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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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Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.
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Your spiritual sense will make you either a winner or a loser.
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Some actors are brilliant character guys. They submerge.
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I’ve been involved in something which was chaotic and insane. All I can say now is that I am, and intend to stay, a single man.
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