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

Sylvester Stallone

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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'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 think kids growing up, if they were picked on and feeling inferior at 12, they're going to feel that way at 72. You just deal with it better. I'm serious. "

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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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" Once is a man's life, for one mortal moment, he must make a grab for immorality; if not, he has not lived. "

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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 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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" 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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" 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. "

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" A lot of actors, and artists in general, never feel secure in love. They always feel everything's going to be taken away from them, professionally and personally; they're extremely emotional and volatile. "

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

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

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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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" 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 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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