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Sylvester Stallone

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
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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Classical Eyes Myself Voice Work
Rocky’ represents the optimistic side of life, and ‘Rambo’ represents purgatory.
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Life Optimism Representation
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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Myself Person Resilience Rich Smart Talent World
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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Actor Crazy Goodness People Play Prediction Secure
Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.
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Control Failure Success
You have to grab life by the throat and squeeze before it grabs you by your neck and breaks it. Own your destiny.
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Break Destiny Life Neck Yourself
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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Believe Hands Listening Myself Pressure Process Religious
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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Guidance Realization Spiritual Thinking Time Yourself
Some actors are brilliant character guys. They submerge.
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Brilliant Character Man
Rambo isn’t violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist.
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Myself Perspective Philanthropy Violence
When you find the right components in your life, the right people, that gel with you, then you feel as though you’re invincible. It may be a fallacy, but you at least feel as though you can take all that life has to dish out.
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Component Feeling Life People Right Yourself
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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Life Live Moments Mortal Oneself
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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Break Change Discover Life
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
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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End Myself School Student Teaching Vote
I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.
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Expectation Future Greatness High Past
When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn’t expect me in comedies or musicals.
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Character Comedy End Musician Myself People Play Try
When you’re an actor, you’re a slave to other people’s visions.
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Actor People Slave Vision Yourself
Real love is when you become selfless and you are more concerned about your mate’s or children’s egos than your own. You’re now a giver instead of a taker.
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Children Generosity Love Reality Selfless Yourself
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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Afford Family Kind Monument Project Statement Surround Thinking Yourself
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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Alone Break End Hurt Karma Law Natural People
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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Creation Different Instrument Movie Myself Sound Togetherness Visual
Movies are the work of a collective conscious. It takes 500-800 people on a movie to complete a vision.
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Collection Complete Conscious Movie People Vision Work
I’m perceived to be this solitary character, but nothing could be further from the truth.
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Character Further Myself Truth
I know I’m incredibly unpredictable, and that’s the only thing I’m sure of.
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Incredible Myself Prediction
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

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