Now it really is, believe it or not, 90% of the films are green lit, not by the studio heads, but by the marketing department.

At the end of the day, 'Rocky' is a love story, and he could never have reached the final bell without Adrian.

Training and working in Philadelphia is a very unusual situation because that city does believe that Rocky is real. No one calls me Sylvester, it's Rocky.

I'm usually taken for a non-intellectual, a person of limited intelligence. I don't know why, but I figure it's because physically I don't look intelligent.

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

I'm the Hiroshima of love.

The only thing that I haven't done is perform brain surgery on myself. I've been very, very lucky. I've spared Shakespeare undue stress by not doing that.