I’m not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren’t straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.
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More Sylvester Stallone Quotes
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Artists die twice. First creatively. Then physically. The second one is the easiest.
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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 believe there’s an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.
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The older I get the more things I gotta leave behind.
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You have to have an almost boundless reservoir of energy and interest to enter politics because quite often it’s thankless and fruitless and you can’t accomplish much.
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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’m not a genetically superior person. I built my body.
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Nothing is real if you don’t believe in who you are!
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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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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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You are what you leave behind.
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That’s what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.
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Clothing is the first step to building a character.
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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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Every generation has to find their own heroes.
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I think kids growing up, if they were picked on and feeling inferior at 12, they’re going to feel that way at 72. You just deal with it better. I’m serious.
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Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.
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To know that the odds are so high that only through the perishing of your life will the minions survive, that’s love. That’s heroism.
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Testosterone to me is so important for a sense of well-being when you get older.
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Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.
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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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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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I wanted to show I had balls at age 60. Just because society says I’m old, doesn’t mean that I am. I’m pursuing happiness, even if it makes the people around me unhappy.
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I love being verbal in films.
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I’m perceived to be this solitary character, but nothing could be further from the truth.
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Time is truly the great enemy. It’s not the great healer, it’s the great stealer.
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