Latest Sylvester Stallone Quotes from Interviews

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• You have to have an almost boundless reservoir of energy and interest to enter politics because quite often it's thankless and fruitless and you can't accomplish much.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Energy, Accomplish, Interest

  Source: aalbc.com

• In this day and age, if you're aspiring to be an actor, and you're putting all your eggs in one basket, you could be disappointed. I started out as an actor, but I forced myself to be a writer, even though I wasn't very good at it and had never written. I don't think I ever passed an English course in my life. My first 8 to 10 scripts were pretty horrendous, but I stayed at it until I eventually found a voice and a subject that people were interested in. So, I recommend that you go out and try to be as versatile as possible: writer, actor, producer and especially director.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Thinking, People, Age

  Source: aalbc.com

• I understand that a lot of other actors don't have a choice. They have to eat so they need to work and they'll do films that they're not so proud of. But I've been fortunate enough to be given a second wind, so I try to pick projects I know will provide the audience the kind of escapism they want from me.

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  Choices, Trying, Proud

  Source: aalbc.com

• If I just know in my gut that a film is going to work, I'll fight to the death over it, and I convince myself. When a movie is purely a money job, the film doesn't have the same sort of intensity, and the audience almost senses it, at least that's the way I perceive it. So, yeah, the idea is to do something that you truly, truly believe in.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Believe, Fighting, Film

  Source: aalbc.com

• The only thing that I haven't done is perform brain surgery on myself. I've been very, very lucky. I've spared Shakespeare undue stress by not doing that.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Stress, Brain, Lucky

• Sometimes worst enemies like a Mohammed Ali and Joe Frazier that's what makes you fight so hard. Without them they never would have achieved greatness.

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  Fighting, Greatness, Worst Enemy

  Source: thesource.com

• I just like stories about redemption about getting a second chance at life, I think everyone in the world has a few major mistakes they've made in there lives and if they could just go back and correct it... but, unfortunately they don't get a chance usually it's almost impossible.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Mistake, Thinking, Second Chance

  Source: thesource.com

• I guess the best thing I do of all is ride. Horsemanship, I have a natural flair for it.

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  Natural, Flair, Horsemanship

  "New Again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1985.

• Polo is like tennis - you literally have to live it.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Tennis, Polo

  "New Again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1985.

• Movies are a collective art. Art by proxy.

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  Art, Proxy, Collectives

  "New Again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1985.

• I watch a lot of news, and I watch musical shows because I think the music of the young people is really their news reports. They let you know how their country is going through their eyes, and about their experiences in the everyday shock of growing up.

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  Country, Growing Up, Eye

  "New Again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1985.

• To be really artful, though, you have to be subjective and so singular.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Subjective

  "New Again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1985.

• I'd live in a museum if I could. I used to spend hours and hours in the Museum of Modern Art.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Art, Museums, Hours

  "New again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 2, 2015.

• Art is the ability to communicate through an intermediary and to convey one's feelings through an isolated object. It's inspiration and incubation. Putting my subjective feelings into an objective form and then on to you for a subjective interpretation.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Art, Inspiration, Feelings

  "New Again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1985.

• Theater is like boxing - having the audience ringside. It's instant gratification. Or horrification.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Boxing, Theater, Instant Gratification

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• It's great the way the old-time directors used to manipulate the hell out of you. You see someone dying and all of a sudden a ghost would come out and they go walking hand in hand up the stairway.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Hands, Walking Hand In Hand, Dying

  "New again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 2, 2015.

• Most of the films I myself like don't do very well. Every director, he has a choice, whether to go for subtlety and try to articulate every minute detail, or to go for the broad strokes and hope that the people will fill in between the lines. I tend to go for the broader strokes.

  Sylvester Stallone

  People, Choices, Trying

  "New again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 2, 2015.

• No one's life is totally morbid. Even on a subtle scale there's little flashes of enlightenment and of happiness and joy.

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  Joy, Enlightenment, Littles

  "New again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 2, 2015.

• Often people going into directing want to learn as much as they possibly can about "technique." And I say the hell with that.

  Sylvester Stallone

  People, Technique, Want

  "New again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 2, 2015.

• I think there's something about being a neophyte that's refreshing and hard to duplicate; it brings about real innovation. Innovation usually comes about through blind ignorance.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Real, Ignorance, Thinking

  "New again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 2, 2015.

• When I was cognizant of the war, I was very angry at the street-corner liberals who were trying to defame the footsoldier. Because there was a man who had no choice. He was a cog in the wheel, just trying to survive. I was always aware of that.

  Sylvester Stallone

  War, Men, Choices

  "New Again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1985.

• Lighting can bring out certain contours in the body, in the face, in the eyes, that otherwise flat lighting couldn't.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Eye, Body, Faces

  "New Again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1985.

• If you come into my house, I'm going to fight much more viciously to get you out than if we were on a neutral piece of land.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Fighting, Land, House

  "New Again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1985.

• The men in Vietnam weren't allowed to fight the war with any kind of concern to win by the government. It was like a war of attrition.

  Sylvester Stallone

  War, Fighting, Winning

  "New Again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1985.

• When crossing someone's borders you have to be prepared to engage in a war that is far more brutal than if it were to take place on neutral territory.

  Sylvester Stallone

  War, Borders, Territory

  "New Again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1985.