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"Racing's very much like the world of acting. You have your front runners and you have guys that are there for the long race, and you have other guys that block for other people, that are called supporting and character actors. It's all the same kind of situation."
"'Rocky' represents the optimistic side of life, and 'Rambo' represents purgatory."
"I have tons of regrets, but I think that's one of the reasons that push people to create things. Out of their angst, their regret, comes the best from artists, painters and writers."
"Most action is based on redemption and revenge, and that's a formula. Moby Dick was formula. It's how you get to the conclusion that makes it interesting."
"Until America, door to door, takes every handgun, this is what you're gonna have. It's pathetic. It really is pathetic. It's sad. We're living in the Dark Ages over there."
"When I'm doing a movie, I eat the same thing every day. For lunch, it's tuna salad or chicken salad and cole slaw. That's it. For dinner it's either veal and rice, fish and rice or steak and rice. It gets boring; boy, does it get boring."
"Theater is like boxing - having the audience ringside. It's instant gratification. Or horrification."
"Making a movie is the same as an orchestra; it's moving all the different instruments and the sounds, the kinetic and the auditory and the visual all together. I'm probably the trombone."
"Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art."
"Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived."
"Polo is like tennis - you literally have to live it."
"I used to tweet, but it's an act of futility. You're not really making any impact, and if you find yourself in a mood when you wanna be a bit controversial and you post something, you suddenly realise, 'Oh my God!' because you've opened yourself up to a bunch of criticism from strangers."
"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."
"Gangster is the truest friend I can ever ask for."
"Your spiritual sense will make you either a winner or a loser."
"At the very end, the one person who Rambo should kill, he doesn't kill. He lets it live. Because you can't kill that kind of hypocritical bureaucracy. It goes on forever."
"People think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in sight."
"At the end of the day, 'Rocky' is a love story, and he could never have reached the final bell without Adrian."
"I've been involved in something which was chaotic and insane. All I can say now is that I am, and intend to stay, a single man."
"There are endless exercises for arms, but the basics are best-chinups and pushups."