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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. "

Sylvester Stallone

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

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

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" 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. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn't expect me in comedies or musicals. "

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

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" When boxers are in the ring, they're simple. It's when the fight is over, that's when the other fight, the real fight, begins. That's the problem. "

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

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" I love art more than anything in the world except for my family. "

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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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" The body needs to rest. It needs a lot less exercise than you think. "

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

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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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" 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 just fight in my movies, never in real life. "

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" People assume that 'The Expendables' is old school, but it's only old school because that's the way I know how to make an action film. It's pretty real. "

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" 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. "

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

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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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" Painting is as close as a person can get to actually capturing the heat of the moment. "

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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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