"I loved 'Rocky' and 'Rambo', and am very proud of them."
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"I abused my body so much throughout my career that I am literally held together by glue. The stuff I took thickens the bones and reinforces the tendons."
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"The body needs to rest. It needs a lot less exercise than you think."
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"Action film is really easy to do, you just get in a car and smash through things and it's called action. The real key is what happens between the action when it's quiet. Loud is easy. Quiet, real hard."
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"Boxing is a great way to vent. I don't know if there is a better way, I think for women too. There is something so primal about it and it's the best exercise in the world, even if you don't ever get in the ring."
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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 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."
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"Rocky would definitely run for councilman. Maybe mayor. But these people are actually most effective in the family unit. That's where they shine."
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"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."
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"I feel that America is like a child that grew up so strong and so fast and so tall that it became self-conscious about its size and started to stoop over so as not to offend anyone."
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"I just fight in my movies, never in real life."
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"I believe an artist dies twice. The first time, it's just terrible - I've been there when the phone isn't ringing for years."
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"I'm astounded by people who take eighteen years to write something. That's how long it took that guy to write Madame Bovary, and was that ever on the best-seller list?"
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"I've always boxed a certain way. But with Rocky, the character himself had to be kind of awkward. So I had to learn to fight that way."
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"People don't realize that when they 'throw out' their back, it's often because of weak abs. These muscles are essential for lower-back strength and good posture."
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"The one thing in my films, I only kill people who need to be killed, or killers killing killers. And I believe that the violence is very justifiable."
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"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 eight to 10 scripts were pretty horrendous, but I stayed at it, stayed at it, and stayed at it, until I eventually found a voice and a subject like Rocky that people were interested in."
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"With writing, I think you have to be honest with yourself. I have a certain kind of writing; that is, I like to really embellish the human spirit. You have to write about something you have a feel for."
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"Rocky is a very predictable movie. The ending is a foregone conclusion."
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"If I'd made it right away as an actor, I would've stopped at a certain level and stayed there, probably as a character actor."
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