When you’re an actor, you’re a slave to other people’s visions.
SYLVESTER STALLONEMovies are the work of a collective conscious. It takes 500-800 people on a movie to complete a vision.
More Sylvester Stallone Quotes
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We do two things in life: We race the clock and everything is a struggle. One way or not, it’s a metaphorical battle all of the time.
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I really am a manifestation of my own fantasy.
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When you’re scared, when you’re hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you’re going to see what you’re really made of.
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Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.
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I’m a patriot of the heart.
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Nothing’s harder than writing. There’s no comparison. With directing, you can bounce a lot of ideas around. There’s tremendous support – you’ve got editors and sound mixers. With writing, it’s all you, and it’s just crippling when people tear up your pages.
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Clichés are what good writing is all about. Because our lives are basically clichés.
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I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.
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When you’re pushed killing is as easy as breathing.
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I was an ambitious child and I tended to be scatterbrained. If I was at school and saw a bird outside the window I wanted to follow it. I was adventurous.
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The problem is, your ego sometimes tells you that you can do many things. But sometimes it’s best to stay focused and be honest with yourself.
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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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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 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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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 think everyone has a certain kind of formula in their life. When you deviate from that formula, you’re going to fail big or you’re gonna win big.
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The more I go to church and the more I turn myself over to the process of believing in Jesus and listening to His Word and having Him guide my hand, I feel as though the pressure is off me now.
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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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That’s what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.
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Gangster is the truest friend I can ever ask for.
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You’ve got to show your soul otherwise you’re just a piece of equipment.
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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 believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.
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People think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in sight.
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Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.
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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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