Every time I’ve failed, people had me out for the count, but I always come back.
SYLVESTER STALLONEAt the very end, the one person who Rambo should kill, he doesn’t kill. He lets it live. Because you can’t kill that kind of hypocritical bureaucracy. It goes on forever.
More Sylvester Stallone Quotes
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Study people’s success stories hard. Study their failures even harder.
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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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Time is truly the great enemy. It’s not the great healer, it’s the great stealer.
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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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Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but the loyalty never fades.
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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’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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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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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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Some actors are brilliant character guys. They submerge.
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Theater is like boxing – having the audience ringside. It’s instant gratification. Or horrification.
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A lot of guys don’t want to admit that they have a propensity for generosity and for violence.
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Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.
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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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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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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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When you’re an actor, you’re a slave to other people’s visions.
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I respect a woman too much to marry her.
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Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.
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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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I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.
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Testosterone to me is so important for a sense of well-being when you get older.
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At the end of the day, ‘Rocky’ is a love story, and he could never have reached the final bell without Adrian.
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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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Everybody has anger or regret in them one way or another. They all try different things to get it out. Some people go to psychiatrists. Some paint pictures. Some people talk it out.
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It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.
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