Study people’s success stories hard. Study their failures even harder.
SYLVESTER STALLONEI’m the Hiroshima of love.
More Sylvester Stallone Quotes
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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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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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You’re a disease. And I’m the cure.
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I’ve had a lot of operations. I’m kind of like Franken-actor.
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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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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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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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I’m a patriot of the heart.
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I made some truly awful movies. ‘Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot’ was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes.
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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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I’m a big believer that, in life, we can’t succeed in everything. Most times, we lose.
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The only thing that I haven’t done is perform brain surgery on myself. I’ve been very, very lucky. I’ve spared Shakespeare undue stress by not doing that.
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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.
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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’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 tell people diets don’t work. And I don’t care what they say. I have tried them all.
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Clothing is the first step to building a character.
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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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Movies are the work of a collective conscious. It takes 500-800 people on a movie to complete a vision.
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I really am a manifestation of my own fantasy.
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Real love is when you become selfless and you are more concerned about your mate’s or children’s egos than your own. You’re now a giver instead of a taker.
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I’m more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time.
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When crossing someone’s borders you have to be prepared to engage in a war that is far more brutal than if it were to take place on neutral territory.
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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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I’m perceived to be this solitary character, but nothing could be further from the truth.
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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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