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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. "

Sylvester Stallone

My Life

Mind

Think

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Trying

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

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

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Voice

Lost

" I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager. "

" 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. "

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

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

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People

Meet

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

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World

Brilliant

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

" I'm pretty spiritual; I believe a lot in the spirit of man. "

" Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture. "

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

" When I tried to branch out into comedy, I didn't do very well at it, so I went back to doing what I do naturally well, or what the audience expects from me - action pictures. "

" 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. "

" 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

Expect

Disaster

" 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. "

" I loved 'Rocky' and 'Rambo', and am very proud of them. "

Sylvester Stallone

Loved

Proud

" 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. "

" Testosterone to me is so important for a sense of well-being when you get older. "

Sylvester Stallone

Important

Sense

" 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.' "

" A lot of guys don't want to admit that they have a propensity for generosity and for violence. "

" Quite often in acting, you have to play a certain part; you cannot speak as much as you want to speak. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We're all expendable. We think the world's going to stop when a pope dies, or a king. And then... life goes on. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Every time I've failed, people had me out for the count, but I always come back. "

Sylvester Stallone

Out

Time

" People don't realize that when they 'throw out' their back, it's often because of weak abs. These muscles are essential for lower-back strength and good posture. "