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.
SYLVESTER STALLONEEvery time I’ve failed, people had me out for the count, but I always come back.
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I made some truly awful movies. ‘Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot’ was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes.
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I tell people diets don’t work. And I don’t care what they say. I have tried them all.
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You’re a disease. And I’m the cure.
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Voices are like fingerprints, from Cagney to Bogart. They never lost it. My voice is instrumental in categorizing me.
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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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All young men want to prove themselves.
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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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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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Movies are a collective art. Art by proxy.
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I’ve been involved in something which was chaotic and insane. All I can say now is that I am, and intend to stay, a single man.
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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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Don’t discuss your dreams. Pursue them!
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I thought I had reached a point in life where everything would be smooth. But it is not. It just gets more jagged and pitted and filled with turns that take you into the dark recesses of your mind. It never seems to get easy.
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If you look back at life, I bet you will regret about 80% of your actions. But life consists of all mistakes.
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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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