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Sylvester Stallone Inspirational Quotes (182)

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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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It took me a long time to be convinced that marriage was right for me because I've come from a long line of broken marriages. My parents divorced, and I had two broken marriages myself.
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The action movies changed radically when it became possible to Velcro your muscles on. It was the beginning of a new era. The visual took over. The special effects became more important than the single person. That was the beginning of the end.
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There'll never be a 'Rocky IV.' You gotta call a halt.
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There are endless exercises for arms, but the basics are best-chinups and pushups.
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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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I understand that a lot of other actors don't have a choice. They have to eat so they need to work and they'll do films that they're not so proud of. But I've been fortunate enough to be given a second wind, so I try to pick projects I know will provide the audience the kind of escapism they want from me.
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I wish my daughters would box. I'm so worried about the guys coming up to them. I would love them to be able to smack a guy right off a bar stool.
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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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I'm a patriot of the heart.
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Every rep I did on chin-ups, on squats with 500 pounds, I never said, to myself, 'Oh, my God, another rep.' I said, 'Yes, another rep, because that will make my dream turn into a reality.'
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Theater is like boxing - having the audience ringside. It's instant gratification. Or horrification.
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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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I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.
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I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.
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Some people maybe try to justify their laziness. You take out what you put in and the more I go to church and the more I turn myself over to the process of believing in Jesus, and to listening to his word and have him guide my hand I feel the pressure's off me.
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I know I can't play funny roles in movies. I tried, and it didn't work.
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Polo is like tennis - you literally have to live it.
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Painting is as close as a person can get to actually capturing the heat of the moment.
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When you're younger you just want to go out and make your mark in the world and doing that, quite often, the people that you love the most and the people you should be closest to suffer from estrangement. I'd be gone nine months a year, so how do you know anyone? When you come home you are a stranger.
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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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Now it really is, believe it or not, 90% of the films are green lit, not by the studio heads, but by the marketing department.
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I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.
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On the sequel, you've lost the element of surprise. Usually, on the first one you may not go very, very deep into character the second one you start to explore the character a bit more.
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