When you’re scared, when you’re hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you’re going to see what you’re really made of.
SYLVESTER STALLONECharacters 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 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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Plan B. You’ve always got to have a Plan B.
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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 crossing someone’s borders you have to be prepared to engage in a war that is far more brutal than if it were to take place on neutral territory.
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When life hits you pretty hard, you can go into a dark corner.
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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 think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains do become valleys after a while if you keep on walking.
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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’m perceived to be this solitary character, but nothing could be further from the truth.
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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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I have a fear of heights that borders on mania.
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Movies are a collective art. Art by proxy.
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If you don’t have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life.
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Some actors are brilliant character guys. They submerge.
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I realized, the older I get, the more difficult life becomes. It’s not easier, it’s more difficult.
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