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" I know people get upset and go, 'They're going to take away the assault weapon'. But who needs an assault weapon? Like, really, unless you're carrying out an assault. "

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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. "

Sylvester Stallone

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Romantic

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" Voices are like fingerprints, from Cagney to Bogart. They never lost it. My voice is instrumental in categorizing me. "

Sylvester Stallone

Voice

Lost

" I'm perceived to be this solitary character, but nothing could be further from the truth. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Certain characters, mostly heroes, have to be the straight silent type; that is part of the make-up. "

" 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. "

" There aren't a lot of opportunities for that rite of passage that makes you a man. War is one of them, and violent sports are another. "

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

" I'm a patriot of the heart. "

Sylvester Stallone

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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. "

" Some actors are brilliant character guys. They submerge. "

" 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. "

" If you look at people that have survived crashing in the mountains and lived up in the snow for 40 days - it's possible to do extraordinary feats. "

" 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. "

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

" People asked if I could have played the Terminator. Are you kidding? Not a chance, I never could have played the Terminator. "

" 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. "

" Movies are the work of a collective conscious. It takes 500-800 people on a movie to complete a vision. "

" 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. "

" I have a fear of heights that borders on mania. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I'm on a location, I pick a restaurant that's close and private and eat all my meals there. "

" All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves. "

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

" For 'Rocky II,' I got a torn pectoral muscle, I got all beat up inside, I had to have an operation to splice things back together. "