Sylvester Stallone Quotes

You have to be really loyal to the people that supported you when you were coming up.

A lot of time people are like, "oh my God, you're stereotyped." Good, then you're known for something.

The phenomenal thing that happened to me is that I was able to create two memorable men: one is the ultimate optimist, Rocky, and then you have Rambo, the ultimate pessimist. You're going to always be remembered for them, no matter what you do.

Every time I've failed, people had me out for the count, but I always come back.

That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.

Children are the first thing I see in the morning and the last thing I see at night. It hurts me to be away from them for a few hours. It really does. I love them and they're girls, so they know how to push my buttons. But I've learned a lot and I have to thank my wife for that.

I want to turn my attention to movies about love relationships. Exploring the female psyche - there ought to be some interesting discoveries there. Love stories. If you do it right, people want to hear romantic dialog.

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.

The champion's management says let's do this for real, for charity. Rocky says no but decides to be true to himself even though he's going to be berated by everyone. Just to compete, not to win.

That's the hardest thing about doing sequels - you've lost the element of surprise.

When I tried to branch out into comedy, I didn't do very well at it, so I went back to doing what I do naturally well, or what the audience expects from me - action pictures.

I'd rather do something I love badly than to feel bad about not doing something I love.

Age is a state of old mind. It gets to a point where if you get old enough, you forget how old you are, and that's the best thing. And then you walk around kind of like in a fog.

Characters I've played, they used to impact my paintings, like 80 percent of the time, and especially when I was doing an action film.

The problem is, your ego sometimes tells you that you can do many things. But sometimes it's best to stay focused and be honest with yourself.

I think there comes a time when you realize that you need God in your life, God's Word, and the spiritual guidance that only He can give.

Now if you know what you're worth. Then go out and get what you're worth.

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 was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

Clothing is the first step to building a character.

Life's not about how hard of a hit you can give... it's about how many you can take, and still keep moving forward.

I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.

With writing, I think you have to be honest with yourself. I have a certain kind of writing; that is, I like to really embellish the human spirit. You have to write about something you have a feel for.

Study people's success stories hard. Study their failures even harder.

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.

I have a fear of heights that borders on mania.

You're a disease. And I'm the cure.

The action movies changed radically when it became possible to Velcro your muscles on. It was the beginning of a new era. The visual took over. The special effects became more important than the single person. That was the beginning of the end.

The world meets nobody halfway. When you want something, you gotta take it.

I've always said that the artist dies twice. And the first death is the hardest which is the career death, the creative death. The physical death is an inevitability.

Some people maybe try to justify their laziness. You take out what you put in and the more I go to church and the more I turn myself over to the process of believing in Jesus, and to listening to his word and have him guide my hand I feel the pressure's off me.

Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.

When I was a kid, my mother used to feed me mashed-potato sandwiches, brussel sprout sandwiches; my brain cells were starving from lack of food. I'll eat anything. I'll eat dirt.

Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that's just the way it is.

Often people going into directing want to learn as much as they possibly can about "technique." And I say the hell with that.

I love art more than anything in the world except for my family.

What I'm trying to do now in my life - not just with the building, but with everything - is to construct things that will have enduring qualities, and won't just be ephemeral flashes in the pan.

Back there I could fly a gunship, I could drive a tank, I was in charge of million dollar equipment, back here I can't even hold a job PARKING CARS!

Rocky would definitely run for councilman. Maybe mayor. But these people are actually most effective in the family unit. That's where they shine.

Action film is really easy to do, you just get in a car and smash through things and it's called action. The real key is what happens between the action when it's quiet. Loud is easy. Quiet, real hard.

There aren't a lot of opportunities for that rite of passage that makes you a man. War is one of them, and violent sports are another.

I know I can't play funny roles in movies. I tried, and it didn't work.

I'm a big believer that, in life, we can't succeed in everything. Most times, we lose.

If you express yourself too much, you're considered weak.

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.

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.

You have to have an almost boundless reservoir of energy and interest to enter politics because quite often it's thankless and fruitless and you can't accomplish much.

I believe an artist dies twice. The first time, it's just terrible - I've been there when the phone isn't ringing for years.