Sylvester Stallone - Rocky Balboa Motivation - Motivational Speech

This guy as a young man had a dream a dream to become a big movie star to come to a Hollywood and to become a great director and producer and a writer and all those kind of dreams He had of course everyone told him it can't be done But, you know, he wouldn't take no for an answer and he moved across from New York to Los Angeles to Hollywood And of course one day after struggling as we all do in the beginning to get into TV and in the movies He had this idea of writing a script and in longhand he wrote this script Which was Rocky? It's all about dreams, you know, and by the way dreams cost nothing they're free the hard part is just keeping them going and please keep them going because We're here for one simple reason he believed in the dream I believed in the dream and our dreams come true and there's no reason every one of yours. Can't either I Used to sit in this little apartment in that I was a room with my factory was so small Remember I was able to open up the window and close the door while sitting on the bed at the same time it was like eight feet by eight feet by nine feet and but The one thing about that room there was really very little distraction so I would sit there propped up in bed and I go out with my big pen and a legal pad and just start writing these these stories and and most of them were very very trivial but there was something about the process of Unrealized dreams. I was always brought back to this subject because I think it's one of the most enduring subjects and one of the most difficult Passages for people to accept that they never were realized in their own lifetime that they just didn't get that shot I decided it was a time to come to California so to, California and I moved in the valley and things weren't going very well there as a matter of fact I had to confront and Try to sell my dog because he was either do that or He just was not gonna be very well fed and then one night I went to see Muhammad Ali a fight for one brief moment this supposed Stumblebum turned out to be Magnificent in the fact that he lasted and knocked the champion down I said boy This isn't a metaphor for life his entire life crystallized at that moment. He will be remembered For all eternity, at least it was among the fight fans. He did something extraordinary none of that That is probably what I need as a catalyst for an idea the man who's going to stand up to life And take one shot and maybe go the distance So I started to write and it was one of those writing frenzies and three days later I came up with the script of Rocky Now the script by no means was a finished piece of material It was probably about 90 pages and maybe 10% of it remained in the final script, but it was done I First met Bob shot off in Irwin Winkler and I believe I was there on on a casting call So we're talking a little bit and I guess I really wasn't right for the acting partner on the way out I said, um, I don't know if it matters but I do a little bit of writing because really he says he's yeah I'm writing this story So I have this thing about wrestlers and I might do some of the boxing while you as well Bringing around and I thought if I hadn't stopped on the way out That's why I tell all actors hover haters don't give up keep talking eventually. You might hit a nerve somewhere. They go come on back and If they didn't say come on back or bring it later and let's see what you've developed. I wouldn't be sitting here so I have to give incredible credit to their to their insight and their patience and they're willing to take a chance which It doesn't exist much anymore unfortunately Originally when I brought the script to them they were and fairly enthusiastic about it The one thing they were not enthusiastic about was me playing the pardon and I really can't blame them at the time But there was something inside of me that that you know this opportunity is never gonna come around and I really wasn't used to money and I had no idea of what I would be missing but the temptation started to come forward first it was 25 grains and $100,000 zero, I never heard of 100 selling because I had had like a hundred six dollars the banking Like I said, I had to sell my dog and things were not looking very very good My $40 car had just blown up. So I was taking a bus to work And was still it didn't matter. I wanted to stick with it. Then I went up to 150 775 south and went up to 250,000 now my head was starting to spin and it went up to three hundred and thirty thousand and Probably I heard it was three hundred sixty thousand and I thought all right, you know You've really managed poverty very well. You've got this down to a science You really don't need much to live on I had like sort of figured it out. So I was not in in any way I Used to to the good life, so I thought you know what? If I know in the back of my mind if I sell the script and it does very very well I'm gonna jump off the pole and if I'm not it so this is one of those things where you just roll the dice and you Fly by the proverbial seat of your pants a guy got frightened. I gotta just do it I may be totally wrong and I'm gonna be taking a lot of people down with me, but I just believe in it we were working with the handheld camera at the time was was Garrett Brown and it was Somewhat experimental and he'd film me running through shopping balls and up down and steps and flights. I mean curved corridors along the river until finally my legs basically gave out and I'm like writhing on the ground and I want to Rise up as hey John. I'm dying here and he goes no no use it used to pain. I said for what I mean I'm in misery because well no, no, you know, it's giving your character It's giving him some depth I said is giving me bruises is giving me like agony I can't sleep at night like the scene where we just jumped down and saw this ship along the dock this Doctor long appearance it just jump out run as faster You can launch this ship and and and I'm running and running I said, you know what my legs are buckling I'm literally gonna crash down here. Teeth are gonna go jaw face I'm just gonna be ground down to this flat faced image, please Just barely made it The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows it's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are It will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it you Me or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life But it ain't about how hard you hit it's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward how much you can take And keep moving forward That's how weird it is done Now if you know what you're worth that go out and get what you're worth but you got to be willing to take the hits and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him or Her or anybody? Cowards do that and that ain't you you're better than that You can't be alone To really succeed No, man Really is an island when you find the right components in your life the right people that gel with you then you feel as though you You're invincible. It may be a fallacy But you at least feel as though you can you can take all that life has to dish out At the very end of our lives if we can still say, you know, and we were never humbled we were knocked down but we got up and I can say I Lived life with integrity and I took all the blows as the song says and I still prevailed I think that's it. That's a Good epitaph for anyone It's all about dreams, you know, and by the way dreams cost nothing they're free The hard part is just keeping them going and please keep them growing because we're here for one simple reason He believed in the dream. I believed in the dream when our dreams come true and there's no reason every one of yours. Can't either You

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Length: 10min 14sec (614 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 26 2018