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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 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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" There's no one in the world close to Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is a phenomenon. He's brilliant. "

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

" I believe an artist dies twice. The first time, it's just terrible - I've been there when the phone isn't ringing for years. "

" If you think people are inherently good, you get rid of the police for 24 hours - see what happens. "

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

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" There's a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone. "

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

" 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. "

" My life has always been chaotic. 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. "

" I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I am not the richest, smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and going and going. "

" 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. "

" When life hits you pretty hard, you can go into a dark corner. "

" With a lot of comedians, one of their major attributes is that they look comedic, with a certain hangdog or manic expression. I look like the neighborhood bully. That doesn't elicit laughter. "

" Characters I've played, they used to impact my paintings, like 80 percent of the time, and especially when I was doing an action film. "

" Whenever I don't get injured, the film is a dud. I didn't bleed on 'Rhinestone.' I didn't bleed on 'Stop! Or My Mom will Shoot.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Sylvester Stallone

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