Sylvester Stallone Quotes

When I was cognizant of the war, I was very angry at the street-corner liberals who were trying to defame the footsoldier. Because there was a man who had no choice. He was a cog in the wheel, just trying to survive. I was always aware of that.

Dreams cost nothing. They are free. The hard part is just keeping them going.

I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.

I guess the best thing I do of all is ride. Horsemanship, I have a natural flair for it.

People assume that 'The Expendables' is old school, but it's only old school because that's the way I know how to make an action film. It's pretty real.

I just fight in my movies, never in real life.

No one will hit you harder than life itself. It doesn't matter how hard you hit back. It's about how much you can take, and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward. That's how you win.

I really am a manifestation of my own fantasy.

In fact, every day I'll read a chapter of some art book. I don't know why. It's just a habit.

If you come into my house, I'm going to fight much more viciously to get you out than if we were on a neutral piece of land.

Most action is based on redemption and revenge, and that's a formula. Moby Dick was formula. It's how you get to the conclusion that makes it interesting.

I love being verbal in films.

I understand that a lot of other actors don't have a choice. They have to eat so they need to work and they'll do films that they're not so proud of. But I've been fortunate enough to be given a second wind, so I try to pick projects I know will provide the audience the kind of escapism they want from me.

I just like stories about redemption about getting a second chance at life, I think everyone in the world has a few major mistakes they've made in there lives and if they could just go back and correct it... but, unfortunately they don't get a chance usually it's almost impossible.

I'm always looking for a new challenge. There are a lot of mountains to climb out there. When I run out of mountains, I'll build a new one.

Movies are the work of a collective conscious. It takes 500-800 people on a movie to complete a vision.

Consider the source...Don't be a fool by listening to a fool.

Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.

A lot of guys don't want to admit that they have a propensity for generosity and for violence.

You have to grab life by the throat and squeeze before it grabs you by your neck and breaks it. Own your destiny.

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

I think everyone has questions in their mind. Did they do their very best?

I think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains do become valleys after a while... if you keep on walking.

Once I stopped trying to always do everything my way, and once I asked for God's help, things have truly gone a different direction.

I loved 'Rocky' and 'Rambo', and am very proud of them.

I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.

Usually whenever you're scared of something, do it. If you're not afraid of it, don't do it.

Without the church it's like having a boat without the rudder. You think you can do it on your own and this may sound pedestrian or trite but I'll equate it to this: all my life I've been involved with exercise but no matter how much - and I know a great deal about the body - you need help. You need a trainer. You need to go to a gym and you need to have the expertise and the guidance of someone else. You cannot train yourself. I feel the same way about Christianity and what the church is. The church is the gym of the soul.

Early on everyone should do, every time they do a big film, they should do a little film. It really does keep you grounded.

I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.

I'd live in a museum if I could. I used to spend hours and hours in the Museum of Modern Art.

For 'Rocky II,' I got a torn pectoral muscle, I got all beat up inside, I had to have an operation to splice things back together.

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.

Real love is when you become selfless and you are more concerned about your mate's or children's egos than your own. You're now a giver instead of a taker.

Rocky is a very predictable movie. The ending is a foregone conclusion.

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

Polo is like tennis - you literally have to live it.

Remember the mind is your best muscle...BIG ARMS can move rocks, but BIG WORDS can move mountains... Ride the brain train for success.

Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.

Racing's very much like the world of acting. You have your front runners and you have guys that are there for the long race, and you have other guys that block for other people, that are called supporting and character actors. It's all the same kind of situation.

Boxing is sort of an inevitability. We know they are going to be pounding each other.

I'm astounded by people who take eighteen years to write something. That's how long it took that guy to write Madame Bovary, and was that ever on the best-seller list?

The man who can best gets along with women, is the man who can get along without them.

I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it, then that's a noble project.

I thought I had reached a point in life where everything would be smooth. But it is not. It just gets more jagged and pitted and filled with turns that take you into the dark recesses of your mind. It never seems to get easy.

Plan B. You've always got to have a Plan B.

Like I said, I've got too much respect for women to marry them, but that doesn't mean you can't support them emotionally and financially.

If you look back at life, I bet you will regret about 80% of your actions. But life consists of all mistakes.