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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. "
Sylvester Stallone
Rejection
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I think I'm a much better painter than an actor. "
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" Life is more than sunglasses and hit movies. Reality - that's the main event. "
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" Certain characters, mostly heroes, have to be the straight silent type; that is part of the make-up. "
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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 know I'm incredibly unpredictable, and that's the only thing I'm sure of. "
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" In a contest between me and a bulldog, you would say the bulldog is cuter. "
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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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" A lot of women read male magazines. Of course, a lot of guys read female magazines, but they've got another issue to deal with. But a lot of women read men's magazines and think, 'Oh, this is what these guys are thinking? Studying up on the enemy here.' "
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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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" When I saw 'Hercules,' my mind just exploded because I was extremely thin; I was insecure. I literally ran out of the theatre and started lifting things, anything I could think of - milk crates. I'm still lifting things. It changed my life. "
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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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" 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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" I consider myself something of a raconteur. I have a rather audacious sense of humour. "
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" Jesus is the inspiration for anyone to go the distance. "
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" I just fight in my movies, never in real life. "
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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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" There's no one in the world close to Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is a phenomenon. He's brilliant. "
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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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" I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated. "
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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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" If you express yourself too much, you're considered weak. "
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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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