I'd rather do something I love badly than to feel bad about not doing something I love. Sylvester Stallone More Quotes by Sylvester Stallone More Quotes From Sylvester Stallone 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 age people thinking 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 technique want people I think everyone has questions in their mind. Did they do their very best? Sylvester Stallone mind thinking Lighting can bring out certain contours in the body, in the face, in the eyes, that otherwise flat lighting couldn't. Sylvester Stallone body eye faces We follow a certain pattern, a maze, if you will, every day, tracing our steps into certain districts and neighborhoods and back home. So it's easy for people to relate to clichés. That's why comedy routines are based on mutual experiences of clichés. Sylvester Stallone mazes home people 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 fighting winning war 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 When you are young, you often think that the world spins around you. You think you can do anything, can take the world on your shoulders. Sylvester Stallone shoulders world thinking I guess the best thing I do of all is ride. Horsemanship, I have a natural flair for it. Sylvester Stallone horsemanship flair natural 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 territory borders war 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 ignorance real thinking 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 choices men war No one's life is totally morbid. Even on a subtle scale there's little flashes of enlightenment and of happiness and joy. Sylvester Stallone enlightenment littles joy 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. Sylvester Stallone worst-enemy greatness fighting 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 walking-hand-in-hand dying hands Polo is like tennis - you literally have to live it. Sylvester Stallone polo tennis 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. Sylvester Stallone growing-up eye country To be really artful, though, you have to be subjective and so singular. Sylvester Stallone subjective I'd live in a museum if I could. I used to spend hours and hours in the Museum of Modern Art. Sylvester Stallone hours museums art Training and working in Philadelphia is a very unusual situation because that city does believe that Rocky is real. No one calls me Sylvester, it's Rocky. Sylvester Stallone real cities believe
