Quotes by Sylvester Stallone With Free Shareable Pictures (Page 2 of 2)

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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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Early on everyone should do, every time they do a big film, they should do a little film. It really does keep you grounded.

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Quite often in acting, you have to play a certain part; you cannot speak as much as you want to speak.

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I consider myself something of a raconteur. I have a rather audacious sense of humour.

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I wish I had thought of Velcro muscles myself. I didn't have to go to the gym for all those years, all the hours wedded to the iron game, as we call it.

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I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.

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'Rocky' represents the optimistic side of life, and 'Rambo' represents purgatory.

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Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that's just the way it is.

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When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.

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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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I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

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What I'm trying to do now in my life -- not just with the building, but with everything -- is to construct things that will have enduring qualities, and won't just be ephemeral flashes in the pan.

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Like I said, I've got too much respect for women to marry them, but that doesn't mean you can't support them emotionally and financially.

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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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My favorite snack would have to be Fritos, no doubt about it. Fritos and mayonnaise. I know. Really healthy, isn't it?

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My life has always been chaotic. From the time I got dressed in the back of a deflated, flat-tired, fish-smelling station wagon for Rocky. It's always been do it yourself, kind of like paper-clip it together.

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People don't realize that when they 'throw out' their back, it's often because of weak abs. These muscles are essential for lower-back strength and good posture.

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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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I used to tweet, but it's an act of futility. You're not really making any impact, and if you find yourself in a mood when you wanna be a bit controversial and you post something, you suddenly realise, 'Oh my God!' because you've opened yourself up to a bunch of criticism from strangers.

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I try to combine in my paintings cinematic feeling, emotional feeling, and sometimes actually writing on the page to combine all the different elements of communication.

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I was on cruise control from '85 to '95, and it was my fault. There were a lot of self-inflicted wounds, when I was not doing any original material. I wasn't directing. I wasn't writing. That's not who I am.

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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 tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.

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Boxing is sort of an inevitability. We know they are going to be pounding each other.

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I'll always have this blue-collar connection. For every guy, there is an opportunity to be a lot better than he thought he could be. We can't all be the star of the team, but we can be a star in our life.

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I want to turn my attention to movies about love relationships. Exploring the female psyche -- there ought to be some interesting discoveries there. Love stories. If you do it right, people want to hear romantic dialog.

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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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For every guy, there is an opportunity to be a lot better than he thought he could be. We can't all be the star of the team, but we can be a star in our life. That's where you set your goal.

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I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.

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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.

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I never quite understood these actors -- though I envy them sometimes -- who can lie out for a year or two. I feel as though time is a real pressing issue, and I want to get as much work done in the time that I have left.

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That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.

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Good action films -- not crap, but good action films -- are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.

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There might have been a period around 'Tango and Cash' when I was nearly fashionable. My problem is that my weight's always been changing for the movies I'm in.

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You know you've been around when they start to remake your own movies when you're still alive.

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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've kind of fashioned my life after a Slinky. Bend me in a million shapes, and eventually I'll spring back to what I originally was.

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When you're on top and you lead the parade, everyone's there throwing lilies and lilac water on your head. But when those parades have gone by and there's a storm in your heart, there are very few people that are going to sit there and listen to you bemoan life.

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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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There's no one in the world close to Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is a phenomenon. He's brilliant.
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There's no one in the world close to Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is a phenomenon. He's brilliant. Just because his physique belies that, don't underestimate him.

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When I'm doing a movie, I eat the same thing every day. For lunch, it's tuna salad or chicken salad and cole slaw. That's it. For dinner it's either veal and rice, fish and rice or steak and rice. It gets boring; boy, does it get boring.

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I have tons of regrets, but I think that's one of the reasons that push people to create things. Out of their angst, their regret, comes the best from artists, painters and writers.

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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 have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.

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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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The biggest and most interesting crisis in the world is the human crisis, and it never gets boring. It goes back to Shakespeare. You don't need a gimmick; it's just man against man and their intolerance of each other.

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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.

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I think everyone has a certain kind of formula in their life. When you deviate from that formula, you're going to fail big or you're gonna win big.

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The trouble with remakes is that people fall in love with the original. It's like peanut butter. If you try to change the taste of peanut butter, you're in trouble.

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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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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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People that spend time in a foxhole -- they're never going to find that relationship anywhere else again... Everything else pales next to that. When you think about the Second World War vets -- more than even the Vietnam vets -- there's a brotherhood.

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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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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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If you think people are inherently good, you get rid of the police for 24 hours -- see what happens.

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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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A lot of guys have muscles. A lot of strong men in this world. I think it's important to show that even under all this strength there's a fragile side, a side that can be affected.

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In a contest between me and a bulldog, you would say the bulldog is cuter.

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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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You know what I think happened? After 'Rocky,' I was almost set up in the eyes of the media to make a flop.

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I think audiences have hit the wall with CGI and special effects. They have seen so many over-the-top events that they can't suspend disbelief.

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Every morning, I crawl out of bed. I sit there and think, 'Do I really need this?' And I drag myself to the gym in my garage. It's not fun. I hate it. I work out alone. Weights.

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I'm always looking for a new challenge. There are a lot of mountains to climb out there. When I run out of mountains, I'll build a new one.

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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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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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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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Don't be gullible, use life before it uses you. Understand there are no free lunches, and for every action you take, there's a reaction.

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I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.

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I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

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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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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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I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.

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When I was a kid, my mother used to feed me mashed-potato sandwiches, brussel sprout sandwiches; my brain cells were starving from lack of food. I'll eat anything. I'll eat dirt.

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I know I'm incredibly unpredictable, and that's the only thing I'm sure of.

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Usually whenever you're scared of something, do it. If you're not afraid of it, don't do it.

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I have all kinds of chest injuries; I tore my vein during 'Rocky II' and had 60 stitches. If you've seen 'Rocky Balboa,' you'll know how bad they look.

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I was an insecure kid. Once I saw 'Hercules' with Steve Reeves, it completely changed my life. If I had never gone to that film, I wouldn't be here today.

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People think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in sight.

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You've got to show your soul otherwise you're just a piece of equipment.

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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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We're all expendable. We think the world's going to stop when a pope dies, or a king. And then... life goes on.

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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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The phenomenal thing that happened to me is that I was able to create two memorable men: one is the ultimate optimist, Rocky, and then you have Rambo, the ultimate pessimist. You're going to always be remembered for them, no matter what you do.

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If bad decorating was a hanging offense, there'd be bodies hanging from every tree!

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Life is more than sunglasses and hit movies. Reality -- that's the main event.