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I have two lovely sons and some good memories, but I’ve had a rather tumultuous personal life. It hasn’t been dull; I’ve been the Hiroshima of love.

Sylvester Stallone

Theater is like boxing – having the audience ringside. It’s instant gratification. Or horrification.
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Audience Horrible Instant Theatre
I really am a manifestation of my own fantasy.
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Fantasy Manifestation Myself
Movies are the work of a collective conscious. It takes 500-800 people on a movie to complete a vision.
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Collection Complete Conscious Movie People Vision Work
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
When you find the right components in your life, the right people, that gel with you, then you feel as though you’re invincible. It may be a fallacy, but you at least feel as though you can take all that life has to dish out.
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Component Feeling Life People Right Yourself
If you look back at life, I bet you will regret about 80% of your actions. But life consists of all mistakes.
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Action Life Mistake Regret Yourself
Movies are a collective art. Art by proxy.
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Art Collection Movie Proxy
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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Break Destiny Life Neck Yourself
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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Life Live Moments Mortal Oneself
I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.
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Expectation Future Greatness High Past
I’d rather do something I love badly than to feel bad about not doing something I love.
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Bad Choice Love Myself
At the very end, the one person who Rambo should kill, he doesn’t kill. He lets it live. Because you can’t kill that kind of hypocritical bureaucracy. It goes on forever.
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End Forever Hypocrisy Kill Kind Live Person
The problem is, your ego sometimes tells you that you can do many things. But sometimes it’s best to stay focused and be honest with yourself.
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Ego Focus Honesty Problem Stay Yourself
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 try to eliminate as much dialogue as possible, and I guess Rambo is my really best experiment with how to eliminate dialogue.
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Elimination Experiment Myself Possible
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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Crowd Happiness Head Humiliation Myself Pain Pleasure Stick Willing Worth
If bad decorating was a hanging offense, there’d be bodies hanging from every tree!
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Bad Decor Hang Tree
I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.
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Action Goodness Moral Movie Myself Play Thinking Triumph
I think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains do become valleys after a while if you keep on walking.
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Career Gravity Mountain Thinking Walk Yourself
Every generation has to find their own heroes.
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Finding Generation Hero
Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.
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Control Failure Success
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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Hurt Inspirational Life Scare See Yourself
Movies are a whole different ball-game, now. It’s much more of a business – very scientific.
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Business Different Game Movie Scientific
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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Angry Artist Different Oneself People Regret Talk Therapy Way
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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Accomplishment Energy Fruit Interest Result Thankful Yourself
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
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

I have two lovely sons and some good memories, but I’ve had a rather tumultuous personal life. It hasn’t been dull; I’ve been the Hiroshima of love.

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