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Sylvester Stallone


American
July 6, 1946
Actor
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I've never made a film that lost money.


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Tags: Money Never Made
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I'm not a genetically superior person. I built my body.


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Tags: Person Body Built
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I respect a woman too much to marry her.


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Tags: Respect Much Too
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I've had a lot of operations. I'm kind of like Franken-actor.


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Tags: Like Had Lot
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I think I'm a much better painter than an actor.


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That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.


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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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Tags: Work Movies Funny
Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.
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Certain characters, mostly heroes, have to be the straight silent type; that is part of the make-up.


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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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Tags: Good Movies Think
Once is a man's life, for one mortal moment, he must make a grab for immorality; if not, he has not lived.
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Tags: Life Make He
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.
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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.
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Tags: Time Like Doing
I am not the richest, smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and going and going.
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I try to combine in my paintings cinematic feeling, emotional feeling, and sometimes actually writing on the page to combine all the different elements of communication.
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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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Tags: People Me Who
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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Tags: Women Respect You
I think everyone has a certain kind of formula in their life. When you deviate from that formula, you're going to fail big or you're gonna win big.
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Tags: You Think Life
Years ago I was diagnosed with a condition, and my doctors prescribed human growth hormone and testosterone for its treatment. Under medical supervision, I have continued to use both medications.
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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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Tags: Time Like Always
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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Every morning, I crawl out of bed. I sit there and think, 'Do I really need this?' And I drag myself to the gym in my garage. It's not fun. I hate it. I work out alone. Weights.
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The biggest and most interesting crisis in the world is the human crisis, and it never gets boring. It goes back to Shakespeare. You don't need a gimmick; it's just man against man and their intolerance of each other.
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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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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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Tags: Women Men Think
Crunches are much more effective than regular sit-ups because they specifically target your upper abdominal muscles rather than your hip muscles. If you're not used to them, they can cause soreness a day or two later, but it's a 'cool' soreness. A badge of honor.
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