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Sylvester Stallone is thrilled Rocky Balboa outlived his portrayal.
The 67-year-old actor was celebrating the premiere of the Broadway adaptation of 'Rocky' - which is based on the 1976 film which he wrote and catapulted him to the spotlight - last night (13.03.14) at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City.
He couldn't believe what a phenomenon the film turned out to be, and was thrilled that the character has proved so popular for so long.
Stallone told ABC News: "This is really surreal.
"It is one thing with the movie. We got lucky with that and we got lucky six times, but 15 years later, a Broadway show.
"It was one of those things where I got lucky it just happen to hit a nerve, and the character lived well beyond me."
Stallone admires the talent of theatrical performers, since they have a skill set which he lacks.
Last month he said: "I possess zero talent in singing or dancing. But I've always admired things I can't do."
The Hollywood hunk admits his version of boxer Rocky in the film is different to Andy Karl's "romantic" version on stage.
He explained: "My Rocky was more guttural, Andy's is a little more aware of his surroundings. He has a romantic quality, I think."
Stallone - who spawned the Oscar-winning film original and five sequels - was in high spirits at the event and got back into the ring, where he raised the show's star Andy's hand in the air at the curtain call in celebration of the musical when he celebrated the performance's first preview last month.

Lindsay Lohan has been branded a "train wreck" over her '2 Broke Girls' appearance.
The troubled actress shot a guest appearance on the show on Wednesday (12.03.14), but an unimpressed audience member said filming was a disaster because the star repeatedly messed her lines.
Writing on the Crazy Days and Crazy Nights blog, the audience member said: "Lindsay was a train wreck... you only want to watch so many collisions before you realize you have better things to do with your life.
"[We, the audience members] are very familiar with every single one of Lindsay Lohan's lines and can repeat them all verbatim to you because we heard them so many times last night. There is not a member of the audience who couldn't do a better job than Lindsay Lohan did last night."
According to the audience member, producers even began changing Lindsay's lines to make it easier for her.
The blog post continued: "Lindsay had a lot of trouble stringing together the various permutations required... the lines were reduced and reduced.
"There was no point in trying to get it all right because it was not going to happen."
And the insider hit out at the actress - who was cast as an indecisive bride who hires main characters Max (Kat Dennings) and Caroline (Beth Behrs) to make her wedding cake - for damaging her voice with smoking and claimed she has undergone so many wrinkle-freezing Botox treatments she was unable to speak properly.
The post added: "Lips so plumped out she couldn't really get them open because of her Botox which also caused her to have trouble pronouncing certain words.
"Of course she won't be able to pronounce anything if she keeps smoking because her voice is rapidly disappearing into some type of screaming smoking raspy hell hole."
"There was a scene later on in the show that required Lindsay to say the words Hawaii and Bahamas in succession. She couldn't move her Botoxed muscles enough to get that combination down without pausing between each."

Lily Allen got into trouble when she tied up her dog outside Jay Z's dressing room.
The singer caused chaos backstage at London's Wireless festival in 2010 - where both she and the rapper were scheduled to perform - when she left her pet pooch Mabel outside the '99 Problems' hitmaker's VIP area.
She told BBC Radio 2: "At Hyde Park a couple of years ago I tied Mabel up outside my dressing room before going on stage. Jay Z's bodyguard came over and was like, 'You have to move that dog!' Jay Z and Beyonce are about to arrive.
"Then Jay Z walked through and was like, 'The dog is OK'. It was literally, 99 problems and the b***h ain't one."
Lily - who has daughters Ethel, two, and Marnie, 14 months with her husband Sam Cooper - is no stranger to controversy and recently took to Twitter to slam MTV for attempting to ban her new music video 'Our Time'.
The video shows her drinking from a flask in the back of a taxi before fighting with another version of herself dressed as a hot dog.
She angrily tweeted: "MTV want to ban the 'Our Time' video during the daytime, unless they get a clean edit that show you a) NOT DRINKING FROM A FLASK and b) NOT DISPLAYING ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR FROM DRINKING BY FIGHTING WITH THE HOT DOG. I told the label we are NOT making a clean version of the video. Bring on the controversy! (sic)"

Britney Spears joined sick children for art therapy earlier this week.
The 'Piece of Me' hitmaker - who has children Sean Preston, eight, and Jayden James, seven, with ex-husband Kevin Federline - took part in a collage-making exercise with youngsters at Children's Hospital Los Angeles on Tuesday (11.03.14), and told the group she believes butterflies are her "guardian angels".
Working to the theme 'What it feels like to be away from home', the group sorted through magazines to and selected images that reminded them of home under the guidance of Art Therapist Nicole Albers.
Britney chose a photo of happy children to represent her boys, an image of a crawfish, which she said was her favourite food, and a butterfly.
She said: "Butterflies are our guardian angels."
The group decided to name their collective work 'Happiness' because when they think of family, that is how they feel.
After the therapy group, Britney spent time in the Heart Institute, the Medical/Surgical unit and the Children's Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases.
She later tweeted: "@ChildrensLA I had the best time, thank you for having me!! xox."

Seth Rogen finds it "depressing" that he's never smoked cannabis with James Franco.
While the pair starred alongside each other in hit 2008 stoner comedy 'Pineapple Express', the comic admits his hunky pal refrains from smoking the narcotic, but other stars such as Jonah Hill and Paul Rudd have joined him in lighting up.
In a candid interview with 'Watch What Happens Live', Seth said: "This is really depressing for me to say ... I've never smoked weed with James Franco because he doesn't smoke weed. That's why he's such a good actor! It's really sad, actually."
Quizzed who he has smoked the drug with, Seth revealed comedienne Sarah Silverman and 'Ant-Man' actor Paul have joined him "lots of times", while Oscar-nominated 'The Wolf of Wall Street' star Jonah has smoked with him a "few times".
But Seth wasn't able to convince his legendary 'Guilt Trip' co-star Barbra Streisand to join him for a smoke.
He lamented: "No, but we talked about it a lot. She smoked weed with Peter Sellers, though. That's the craziest s**t ever!"
The 31-year-old actor has even enjoyed marijuana with notorious weed lover, Snoop Lion.
He added: "Yeah, actually I have!"

Adele is negotiating a new publishing deal.
The 25-year-old star's previous agreement is said to have expired and she's now reportedly working on a new contract - which will earn her money from songwriting royalties and will include an advance - which is estimated to be worth around £10 million.
A source told The Sun newspaper: "The figures being mentioned are huge.
"Publishing firms know anything Adele does will sell millions of copies and that the songwriting royalties will be huge."
Although the 'Rolling in the Deep' hitmaker has been taking a break from music to enjoy motherhood, as she gave birth to her first son Angelo James Konecki in 2012, she is still reported to be earning up to £32,000 a day in royalties from her past albums, and the new deal could suggest she's preparing to release new material.
The source added: "She's certain to get a big sum up front and more as she releases new material.
"Her next album should be out before the end of the year, the cash will start flowing in."
Adele is said to have started work on her third studio album last April.

John Legend has disagreements with Kanye West.
The 35-year-old singer-songwriter has worked with his producer Kanye West on all four of his albums and claims they constantly argue over what would work best and says he's sometimes forced to go against the rappers wishes.
He said: "We always have differences of opinion.
"We try to get to a place where we agree on a song, but occasionally I put something on that I love and Kanye isn't too fond of."
The 'All of Me' hitmaker admitted however that he thinks people are too quick to judge the 'Yeezus' star - who is engaged to Kim Kardashian and is often criticised for his public rants.
John told the Daily Star newspaper: "He is so honest that people think there must be something else behind it, but it's just him telling the truth as he sees it.
"We place a premium on being polite, but it's not the most necessary thing.
"If you look at what Kanye says and does, it might upset our sense of politeness, but has he ever actually hurt anybody? No."

Meryl Streep is always the "bad cop" with her kids.
The 'Silkwood' actress admits her husband Donald gets away with spoiling their four grown-up children Henry, Mamie, Grace and Louisa, while she is left to be the villain.
Quizzed about who the boss is at home, she told France's Madame Figaro magazine: "I have to pay tribute to Donald, my husband! Before he left home, my older son was the one who had power over his sisters. But normally it's pretty balanced.
"We try and share everything, my husband and I, but like always, I'm cast as the villain, I'm the bad cop who punishes whereas the father says yes and consoles."
Meryl is appreciative that her acting career has allowed her to spend more quality time at home with her family than most women's jobs.
She said: "Being an actress isn't really the problem because it's a job that makes you more available than many others. If I had been an architect or a journalist, I would have been a lot less available. Many of my friends only have one week's holiday at Christmas and two in summer.
"Very often I work for four months then I have about five at home. My kids never knew exactly when I would be there, but I often was! I was an unpredictable mother, which meant they were always on high alert, a very good thing! The real problem is celebrity. It's very unstabilizing."

Shailene Woodley and Theo James are "attracted" to each other.
The pair play Beatrice 'Tris' Prior and Tobias 'Four' Eaton respectively in forthcoming sci-fi action flick 'Divergent', where they share a "hot and intense" screen romance, and director Neil Burger admits he was inclined to cast them after witnessing their instant chemistry during auditions.
He told Total Film magazine: "They really had a connection so I was confident we would get it. They're both kinda attracted to each other! And I think people are going to be excited about their relationship in the movie, there's real friction between them.
"They're in a world where it's not about their attraction, they've got real, physical concerns - whether it be training or real life-or-death situations - but unlike, say, 'The Hunger Games', where there's a sort of relationship but not really, here's a real romance which is hot and intense."
'Divergent' is based on Veronica Roth's popular novel of the same name, and Burger wants the "sophisticated" film to appeal to everyone.
He added: "It's from a young adult novel but we're playing it pretty sophisticated. It's not a movie just for teenagers, it's much more universal."