People asked if I could have played the Terminator. Are you kidding? Not a chance, I never could have played the Terminator.

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

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.

When you're on top and you lead the parade, everyone's there throwing lilies and lilac water on your head. But when those parades have gone by and there's a storm in your heart, there are very few people that are going to sit there and listen to you bemoan life.

When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.

People that spend time in a foxhole - they're never going to find that relationship anywhere else again... Everything else pales next to that. When you think about the Second World War vets - more than even the Vietnam vets - there's a brotherhood.

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.