Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.
SYLVESTER STALLONEStudy people’s success stories hard. Study their failures even harder.
More Sylvester Stallone Quotes
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Clichés are what good writing is all about. Because our lives are basically clichés.
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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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Once in one’s life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived.
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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 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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When life hits you pretty hard, you can go into a dark corner.
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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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Like I said, I’ve got too much respect for women to marry them, but that doesn’t mean you can’t support them emotionally and financially.
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I was an insecure kid. Once I saw ‘Hercules’ with Steve Reeves, it completely changed my life. If I had never gone to that film, I wouldn’t be here today.
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Movies are a collective art. Art by proxy.
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Gangster is the truest friend I can ever ask for.
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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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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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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 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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