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I have tons of regrets, but I think that’s one of the reasons that push people to create things. Out of their angst, their regret, comes the best from artists, painters and writers.

Sylvester Stallone

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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Comparison Editor Hard Ideas People Sound Support Writing Yourself
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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Blow Myself Rejection Treat Wake Up
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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Action Formula Interesting Revenge
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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Myself Performance Stress Surgery
You’re a disease. And I’m the cure.
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Healing Medicine Myself Sick Yourself
Don’t be gullible, use life before it uses you. Understand there are no free lunches, and for every action you take, there’s a reaction.
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Action Freedom Life Lunch Reaction Understand Yourself
Boxing is a great exercise as long as you can yell “cut” whenever you want to.
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Exercise Greatness Yourself
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.
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Audience Comedy Expectation Myself Natural Photograph
I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.
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Action Goodness Moral Movie Myself Play Thinking Triumph
I’m a patriot of the heart.
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Heart Myself Patriot
I watch a lot of news, and I watch musical shows because I think the music of the young people is really their news reports. They let you know how their country is going through their eyes, and about their experiences in the everyday shock of growing up.
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Experience Growth Music Myself News Report Thinking Watch
I know I’m incredibly unpredictable, and that’s the only thing I’m sure of.
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Incredible Myself Prediction
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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Artist Change Death Happiness Paint Yourself
People think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in sight.
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Fire Kind People Retirement Sight Yourself
Rambo isn’t violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist.
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Myself Perspective Philanthropy Violence
Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.
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Control Failure Success

I have tons of regrets, but I think that’s one of the reasons that push people to create things. Out of their angst, their regret, comes the best from artists, painters and writers.

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