"I think audiences have hit the wall with CGI and special effects. They have seen so many over-the-top events that they can't suspend disbelief."
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"My life has always been chaotic. From the time I got dressed in the back of a deflated, flat-tired, fish-smelling station wagon for Rocky. It's always been do it yourself, kind of like paper-clip it together."
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"I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey."
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"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."
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"I have made a lot of career mistakes, a lot and I have made a lot of personal ones too!"
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"I wanted to show I had balls at age 60. Just because society says I'm old, doesn't mean that I am. I'm pursuing happiness, even if it makes the people around me unhappy."
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"The character of Rocky was built on the idea that he was chosen to do something. That's why the first image in Rocky is the picture of Christ."
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"I do believe that American should deal from strength."
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"I never started out to be an action actor. I was an ensemble actor."
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"Crunches are much more effective than regular sit-ups because they specifically target your upper abdominal muscles rather than your hip muscles. If you're not used to them, they can cause soreness a day or two later, but it's a 'cool' soreness. A badge of honor."
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"We're all expendable. We think the world's going to stop when a pope dies, or a king. And then... life goes on."
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"Boxing is sort of an inevitability. We know they are going to be pounding each other."
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"Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture."
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"I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned."
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"Every morning, I crawl out of bed. I sit there and think, 'Do I really need this?' And I drag myself to the gym in my garage. It's not fun. I hate it. I work out alone. Weights."
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"Lighting can bring out certain contours in the body, in the face, in the eyes, that otherwise flat lighting couldn't."
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"Nothing is real if you don't believe in who you are!"
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"If you're gonna be a failure, at least be one at something you enjoy."
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"You're a disease. And I'm the cure."
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"Now if you know what you're worth. Then go out and get what you're worth."
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