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.
SYLVESTER STALLONEI watch a lot of news, and I watch musical shows because I think the music of the young people is really their news reports. They let you know how their country is going through their eyes, and about their experiences in the everyday shock of growing up.
More Sylvester Stallone Quotes
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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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I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.
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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 love being verbal in films.
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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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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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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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Some actors are brilliant character guys. They submerge.
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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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Every generation has to find their own heroes.
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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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I tell people diets don’t work. And I don’t care what they say. I have tried them all.
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I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I’ve just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it’s not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.
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When you’re pushed killing is as easy as breathing.
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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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