Sylvester Stallone Quotes

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Sylvester Stallone

Profession : Actor

Birth : July 6, 1946

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

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

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You have to be really loyal to the people that supported you when you were coming up.

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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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I was on cruise control from '85 to '95, and it was my fault. There were a lot of self-inflicted wounds, when I was not doing any original material. I wasn't directing. I wasn't writing. That's not who I am.

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

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

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

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Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that's just the way it is.

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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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I've never made a film that lost money.

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You know what I think happened? After 'Rocky,' I was almost set up in the eyes of the media to make a flop.

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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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I have a fear of heights that borders on mania.

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When I'm on a location, I pick a restaurant that's close and private and eat all my meals there.

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When I was a kid, my mother used to feed me mashed-potato sandwiches, brussel sprout sandwiches; my brain cells were starving from lack of food. I'll eat anything. I'll eat dirt.

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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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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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