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I'm not just painting for painting's sake. I want to be truthful.
When people meet me they’re often surprised. I talk a great deal.
When people meet me, they're often surprised - I talk a great deal.
I never started out to be an action actor. I was an ensemble actor.
The body needs to rest. It needs a lot less exercise than you think.
If you're gonna be a failure, at least be one at something you enjoy.
Study people's success stories hard. Study their failures even harder.
I know I can't play funny roles in movies. I tried, and it didn't work.
To be really artful, though, you have to be subjective and so singular.
Rocky is a very predictable movie. The ending is a foregone conclusion.
You've got to show your soul otherwise you're just a piece of equipment.
If I'd succeeded right away at acting I wouldn't have sought out writing.
Now if you know what you're worth. Then go out and get what you're worth.
In a contest between me and a bulldog, you would say the bulldog is cuter.
I think everyone has questions in their mind. Did they do their very best?
I know I'm incredibly unpredictable, and that's the only thing I'm sure of.
The world meets nobody halfway. When you want something, you gotta take it.
The way to be successful in Hollywood is to be as obnoxious as the next guy.
Life is more than sunglasses and hit movies. Reality - that's the main event.
Dreams cost nothing. They are free. The hard part is just keeping them going.
Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but the loyalty never fades.
Testosterone to me is so important for a sense of well-being when you get older.
I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.
Every time I've failed, people had me out for the count, but I always come back.
'Rocky' represents the optimistic side of life, and 'Rambo' represents purgatory.
Sometimes I write with music on, and if I'm in a good flow, I don't even hear it.
Time is truly the great enemy. It's not the great healer, it's the great stealer.
Boxing is a great exercise ... as long as you can yell "cut" whenever you want to.
There are endless exercises for arms, but the basics are best-chinups and pushups.
That's the hardest thing about doing sequels - you've lost the element of surprise.
If bad decorating was a hanging offense, there'd be bodies hanging from every tree!
Clichés are what good writing is all about. Because our lives are basically clichés.
Artists die twice. First creatively. Then physically. The second one is the easiest.
You have to be really loyal to the people that supported you when you were coming up.
Boxing is sort of an inevitability. We know they are going to be pounding each other.
I consider myself something of a raconteur. I have a rather audacious sense of humour.
Painting is as close as a person can get to actually capturing the heat of the moment.
The man who can best gets along with women, is the man who can get along without them.
I'm a big believer that, in life, we can't succeed in everything. Most times, we lose.
I tell people diets don't work. And I don't care what they say. I have tried them all.
I have made a lot of career mistakes, a lot and I have made a lot of personal ones too!
I try to tell people that just because you're buff and cut doesn't mean you're healthy.
I'd rather do something I love badly than to feel bad about not doing something I love.
I guess the best thing I do of all is ride. Horsemanship, I have a natural flair for it.
I'm perceived to be this solitary character, but nothing could be further from the truth.
Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that's just the way it is.
I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.
In the movies, I kill guys with an axe. In real life, I can't control a nine-year-old girl.
Movies are a whole different ball-game, now. It's much more of a business - very scientific.
Usually whenever you're scared of something, do it. If you're not afraid of it, don't do it.