Most action is based on redemption and revenge, and that’s a formula. Moby Dick was formula. It’s how you get to the conclusion that makes it interesting.
SYLVESTER STALLONEI’d rather do something I love badly than to feel bad about not doing something I love.
More Sylvester Stallone Quotes
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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 tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.
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When you’re an actor, you’re a slave to other people’s visions.
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Everybody has anger or regret in them one way or another. They all try different things to get it out. Some people go to psychiatrists. Some paint pictures. Some people talk it out.
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I am not the richest, smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and going and going.
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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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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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Artists die twice. First creatively. Then physically. The second one is the easiest.
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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 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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The older I get the more things I gotta leave behind.
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I really am a manifestation of my own fantasy.
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When you’re pushed killing is as easy as breathing.
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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 think I’m a much better painter than an actor.
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Nothing is real if you don’t believe in who you are!
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I’ve had a lot of operations. I’m kind of like Franken-actor.
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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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I wanted to show I had balls at age 60. Just because society says I’m old, doesn’t mean that I am. I’m pursuing happiness, even if it makes the people around me unhappy.
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The way to be successful in Hollywood is to be as obnoxious as the next guy.
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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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Theater is like boxing – having the audience ringside. It’s instant gratification. Or horrification.
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If bad decorating was a hanging offense, there’d be bodies hanging from every tree!
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Ya gotta do what ya gotta do.
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Every time I’ve failed, people had me out for the count, but I always come back.
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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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