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" Today's action hero, his skills are through technology. He can fly, he can throw a bolt of lightning, he can freeze people. "

Sylvester Stallone

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" When you're an actor, you're a slave to other people's visions. "

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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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" Like I said, I've got too much respect for women to marry them, but that doesn't mean you can't support them emotionally and financially. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. That's where you set your goal. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Usually whenever you're scared of something, do it. If you're not afraid of it, don't do it. "

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" I'm not a genetically superior person. I built my body. "

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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 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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" 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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" Jesus is the inspiration for anyone to go the distance. "

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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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" It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful. "

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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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" I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism. "

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" 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. "

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" Rambo isn't violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist. "

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" There might have been a period around 'Tango & Cash' when I was nearly fashionable. My problem is that my weight's always been changing for the movies I'm in. "

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" The phenomenal thing that happened to me is that I was able to create two memorable men: one is the ultimate optimist, Rocky, and then you have Rambo, the ultimate pessimist. You're going to always be remembered for them, no matter what you do. "

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" All young men want to prove themselves. "

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

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" Sometimes I write with music on, and if I'm in a good flow, I don't even hear it. "

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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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