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With a lot of comedians, one of their major attributes is that they look comedic, with a certain hangdog or manic expression. I look like the neighborhood bully. That doesn’t elicit laughter.

Sylvester Stallone

Study people’s success stories hard. Study their failures even harder.
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Failure Hard People Story Success
The way to be successful in Hollywood is to be as obnoxious as the next guy.
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Character Hollywood Success Way
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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Creation Different Instrument Movie Myself Sound Togetherness Visual
All young men want to prove themselves.
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Evidence Man Young
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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Myself Performance Stress Surgery
Every generation has to find their own heroes.
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Finding Generation Hero
Clothing is the first step to building a character.
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Character Clothes Oneself Step
Movies are a collective art. Art by proxy.
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Art Collection Movie Proxy
I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.
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Expectation Future Greatness High Past
It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.
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Avoid Compassionate Failure Fire Generosity Greatness Success Wonderful
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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Business Manager Myself Personal Sensitive Talk Writing
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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Afford Family Kind Monument Project Statement Surround Thinking Yourself
I thought I had reached a point in life where everything would be smooth. But it is not. It just gets more jagged and pitted and filled with turns that take you into the dark recesses of your mind. It never seems to get easy.
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Darkness Easy Life Mindset Myself Point Reach Smooth Thinking
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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Comparison Editor Hard Ideas People Sound Support Writing Yourself
I’m the Hiroshima of love.
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Love One Liner
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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Build Life Mountain Start Yourself

With a lot of comedians, one of their major attributes is that they look comedic, with a certain hangdog or manic expression. I look like the neighborhood bully. That doesn’t elicit laughter.

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With a lot of comedians, one of their major attributes is that they look comedic, with a certain hangdog or manic expression. I look like the neighborhood bully. That doesn’t elicit laughter.

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