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"When you're scared, when you're hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you're going to see what you're really made of."

— Sylvester Stallone

When Youre Scared When Youre Hanging

When you're scared, when you're hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you're going to see what you're really made of.

— Sylvester Stallone
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About this quote

Stallone has expressed this view of adversity as a character test in interviews spanning his career. It reflects the narrative logic of the Rocky films, where each installment strips the protagonist down before building him back up, and it mirrors Stallone's own biography: from sleeping in a bus station and selling his dog to fund early work, to winning two Academy Award nominations for Rocky (1976).

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Interview

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