You have to grab life by the throat and squeeze before it grabs you by your neck and breaks it. Own your destiny.
SYLVESTER STALLONEEvery generation has to find their own heroes.
More Sylvester Stallone Quotes
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You are what you leave behind.
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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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The problem is, your ego sometimes tells you that you can do many things. But sometimes it’s best to stay focused and be honest with yourself.
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At the end of the day, ‘Rocky’ is a love story, and he could never have reached the final bell without Adrian.
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I love being verbal in films.
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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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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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All young men want to prove themselves.
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At the very end, the one person who Rambo should kill, he doesn’t kill. He lets it live. Because you can’t kill that kind of hypocritical bureaucracy. It goes on forever.
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I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I’ve just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it’s not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.
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If you express yourself too much, you’re considered weak.
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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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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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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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