Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.
SYLVESTER STALLONEEvery generation has to find their own heroes.
More Sylvester Stallone Quotes
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I really am a manifestation of my own fantasy.
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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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Plan B. You’ve always got to have a Plan B.
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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 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 take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.
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I’m not a genetically superior person. I built my body.
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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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I am not the richest, smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and going and going.
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When you’re an actor, you’re a slave to other people’s visions.
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The only thing that I haven’t done is perform brain surgery on myself. I’ve been very, very lucky. I’ve spared Shakespeare undue stress by not doing that.
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Remember the mind is your best muscle, BIG ARMS can move rocks, but BIG WORDS can move mountains. Ride the brain train for success.
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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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I have a fear of heights that borders on mania.
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When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.
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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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You are what you leave behind.
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Clichés are what good writing is all about. Because our lives are basically clichés.
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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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Suddenly I’ve got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.
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Making a movie is the same as an orchestra; it’s moving all the different instruments and the sounds, the kinetic and the auditory and the visual all together. I’m probably the trombone.
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I’ve had a lot of operations. I’m kind of like Franken-actor.
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Once in one’s life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived.
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Nothing is real if you don’t believe in who you are!
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If you express yourself too much, you’re considered weak.
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There’s a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone.
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