I’m a patriot of the heart.
SYLVESTER STALLONEI really am a manifestation of my own fantasy.
More Sylvester Stallone Quotes
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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 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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Clichés are what good writing is all about. Because our lives are basically clichés.
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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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Movies are a collective art. Art by proxy.
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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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Rambo isn’t violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist.
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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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Study people’s success stories hard. Study their failures even harder.
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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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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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Clothing is the first step to building a character.
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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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Age is a state of old mind. It gets to a point where if you get old enough, you forget how old you are, and that’s the best thing. And then you walk around kind of like in a fog.
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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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I realized, the older I get, the more difficult life becomes. It’s not easier, it’s more difficult.
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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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Some actors are brilliant character guys. They submerge.
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Every generation has to find their own heroes.
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Suddenly I’ve got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.
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I’m a big believer that, in life, we can’t succeed in everything. Most times, we lose.
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If bad decorating was a hanging offense, there’d be bodies hanging from every tree!
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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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I believe there’s an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.
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With a lot of comedians, one of their major attributes is that they look comedic, with a certain hangdog or manic expression. I look like the neighborhood bully. That doesn’t elicit laughter.
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Rocky’ represents the optimistic side of life, and ‘Rambo’ represents purgatory.
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