I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.
SYLVESTER STALLONEMovies are a whole different ball-game, now. It’s much more of a business – very scientific.
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Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.
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I’d rather do something I love badly than to feel bad about not doing something I love.
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I don’t fall into the physical manifestation of a man of letters. So I guess people assume the scripts are delivered to me under the door.
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I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager.
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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 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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No one will hit you harder than life itself. It doesn’t matter how hard you hit back. It’s about how much you can take, and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward. That’s how you win.
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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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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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The church is the gym of the soul.
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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’ve had a lot of operations. I’m kind of like Franken-actor.
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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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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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Some actors are brilliant character guys. They submerge.
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