Study people’s success stories hard. Study their failures even harder.
SYLVESTER STALLONEThe only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can’t change. After I die, I’ll probably come back as a paintbrush.
More Sylvester Stallone Quotes
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I think I’m a much better painter than an actor.
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If you’re willing to take the humiliation of sticking your head above the crowd, maybe it’s, you know, the pleasure will be worth the pain.
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There’s a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone.
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Movies are a whole different ball-game, now. It’s much more of a business – very scientific.
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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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You have to grab life by the throat and squeeze before it grabs you by your neck and breaks it. Own your destiny.
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I thought marriage was tough. Golf’s like going over Niagara Falls in a barrel! It’s a psychological game that gets into your blood.
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When I tried to branch out into comedy, I didn’t do very well at it, so I went back to doing what I do naturally well, or what the audience expects from me – action pictures.
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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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Making a movie is the same as an orchestra; it’s moving all the different instruments and the sounds, the kinetic and the auditory and the visual all together. I’m probably the trombone.
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No one will hit you harder than life itself. It doesn’t matter how hard you hit back. It’s about how much you can take, and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward. That’s how you win.
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Testosterone to me is so important for a sense of well-being when you get older.
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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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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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I love being verbal in films.
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Movies are the work of a collective conscious. It takes 500-800 people on a movie to complete a vision.
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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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The older I get the more things I gotta leave behind.
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Life’s not about how hard of a hit you can give, it’s about how many you can take, and still keep moving forward.
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I have tons of regrets, but I think that’s one of the reasons that push people to create things. Out of their angst, their regret, comes the best from artists, painters and writers.
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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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I’m the Hiroshima of love.
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In the movies, I kill guys with an axe. In real life, I can’t control a nine-year-old girl.
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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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Gangster is the truest friend I can ever ask for.
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Going in one more round when you don’t think you can – that’s what makes all the difference in your life.
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