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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. "

Sylvester Stallone

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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 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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" 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 think I'm a much better painter than an actor. "

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" The day I can't walk is the day I quit movies. "

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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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" 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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" Just because society says I'm old doesn't mean I am. "

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" Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure. "

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

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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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" 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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" When people meet me, they're often surprised - I talk a great deal. "

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

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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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" 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 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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" There'll never be a 'Rocky IV.' You gotta call a halt. "

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

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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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" 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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" 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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