Sylvester Stallone Quotes

I wish my daughters would box. I'm so worried about the guys coming up to them. I would love them to be able to smack a guy right off a bar stool.

I know I'm incredibly unpredictable, and that's the only thing I'm sure of.

When I'm on a location, I pick a restaurant that's close and private and eat all my meals there.

To know that the odds are so high that only through the perishing of your life will the minions survive, that's love. That's heroism.

Whenever I don't get injured, the film is a dud. I didn't bleed on 'Rhinestone.' I didn't bleed on 'Stop! Or My Mom will Shoot.'

Life is more than sunglasses and hit movies. Reality - that's the main event.

I think there's something about being a neophyte that's refreshing and hard to duplicate; it brings about real innovation. Innovation usually comes about through blind ignorance.

I've kind of fashioned my life after a Slinky. Bend me in a million shapes, and eventually I'll spring back to what I originally was.

The idea of Rambo is kind of intriguing as a closing chapter. When you shoot a film as a sequel to do another sequel it's a whole other tone. But when you know it's the final chapter you try and put in there as much emotion, understanding and closure as you can. So, whereas Rocky is a lighter character and optimistic, Rambo is much darker.

Boxing is a great way to vent. I don't know if there is a better way, I think for women too. There is something so primal about it and it's the best exercise in the world, even if you don't ever get in the ring.

I think people of all occupations, whether it's the camera - puller or the man who's doing the catering, they can identify with Rambo's frustrations, with the veteran's frustrations.

Theater is like boxing - having the audience ringside. It's instant gratification. Or horrification.

I am not the richest, smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and going and going.

I've had a lot of operations. I'm kind of like Franken-actor.

I'm not right wing, I'm not left wing. I love my country.

You know you've been around when they start to remake your own movies when you're still alive.

The character of Rocky was built on the idea that he was chosen to do something. That's why the first image in Rocky is the picture of Christ.

Gangster is the truest friend I can ever ask for.

Artists die twice. First creatively. Then physically. The second one is the easiest.

I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.

I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager.

I started out as an actor, but I forced myself to be a writer, even though I wasn't very good at it and had never written. I don't think I ever passed an English course in my life. My first eight to 10 scripts were pretty horrendous, but I stayed at it, stayed at it, and stayed at it, until I eventually found a voice and a subject like Rocky that people were interested in.

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.

There'll never be a 'Rocky IV.' You gotta call a halt.

I really have very little aspirations about acting because I think that probably the best things have come and gone. I would like to focus on writing and directing. I love writing and directing even though writing can be incredibly painful and lonely. I get great satisfaction from doing it.

Time is truly the great enemy. It's not the great healer, it's the great stealer.

Going in one more round when you don't think you can - that's what makes all the difference in your life.

Sometimes worst enemies like a Mohammed Ali and Joe Frazier that's what makes you fight so hard. Without them they never would have achieved greatness.

I never started out to be an action actor. I was an ensemble actor. "Rocky" was an ensemble film. "F.I.S.T." was an ensemble. "Paradise Alley" was an ensemble.

I was on cruise control from '85 to '95, and it was my fault. There were a lot of self-inflicted wounds, when I was not doing any original material. I wasn't directing. I wasn't writing. That's not who I am.

I'm a patriot of the heart.

No one's life is totally morbid. Even on a subtle scale there's little flashes of enlightenment and of happiness and joy.

I realized, the older I get, the more difficult life becomes. It's not easier, it's more difficult.

I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.

Rambo isn't violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist.

For every guy, there is an opportunity to be a lot better than he thought he could be. We can't all be the star of the team, but we can be a star in our life. That's where you set your goal.

A lot of actors, and artists in general, never feel secure in love. They always feel everything's going to be taken away from them, professionally and personally; they're extremely emotional and volatile.

Some actors are brilliant character guys. They submerge.

Years ago I was diagnosed with a condition and my doctors prescribed human growth hormone and testosterone for its treatment. Under medical supervision I have continued to use both medications.

When you are young, you often think that the world spins around you. You think you can do anything, can take the world on your shoulders.

If you're gonna be a failure, at least be one at something you enjoy.

Everybody has anger or regret in them one way or another. They all try different things to get it out. Some people go to psychiatrists. Some paint pictures. Some people talk it out.

The body needs to rest. It needs a lot less exercise than you think.

If you don't have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life.

Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived.

Through failure, I found different ways to reverse my problems and get into the mainstream of Hollywood.

I have all kinds of chest injuries; I tore my vein during 'Rocky II' and had 60 stitches. If you've seen 'Rocky Balboa,' you'll know how bad they look.

I'm not a genetically superior person. I built my body.