Sylvester Stallone Quotes

Until America, door to door, takes every handgun, this is what you're gonna have. It's pathetic. It really is pathetic. It's sad. We're living in the Dark Ages over there.

I have tons of regrets, but I think that's one of the reasons that push people to create things. Out of their angst, their regret, comes the best from artists, painters and writers.

I try to eliminate as much dialogue as possible, and I guess Rambo is my really best experiment with how to eliminate dialogue.

'Rocky' represents the optimistic side of life, and 'Rambo' represents purgatory.

Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.

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

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

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.

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

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

People think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in sight.

I've been involved in something which was chaotic and insane. All I can say now is that I am, and intend to stay, a single man.

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.

The trouble with remakes is that people fall in love with the original. It's like peanut butter. If you try to change the taste of peanut butter, you're in trouble.

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

I think everyone has a certain kind of formula in their life. When you deviate from that formula, you're going to fail big or you're gonna win big.

There are endless exercises for arms, but the basics are best-chinups and pushups.

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.

Gangster is the truest friend I can ever ask for.

Your spiritual sense will make you either a winner or a loser.

Every morning, I crawl out of bed. I sit there and think, 'Do I really need this?' And I drag myself to the gym in my garage. It's not fun. I hate it. I work out alone. Weights.

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 have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.

I'm the Hiroshima of love.

I have two lovely sons and some good memories, but I've had a rather tumultuous personal life. It hasn't been dull; I've been the Hiroshima of love.

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

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

My favorite snack would have to be Fritos, no doubt about it. Fritos and mayonnaise. I know. Really healthy, isn't it?

We're all expendable. We think the world's going to stop when a pope dies, or a king. And then... life goes on.

The way to be successful in Hollywood is to be as obnoxious as the next guy.

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

Nothing is real if you don't believe in who you are!

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

If bad decorating was a hanging offense, there'd be bodies hanging from every tree!

All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves.

I think audiences have hit the wall with CGI and special effects. They have seen so many over-the-top events that they can't suspend disbelief.

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.

Lighting can bring out certain contours in the body, in the face, in the eyes, that otherwise flat lighting couldn't.

I wanted to show I had balls at age 60. Just because society says I'm old, doesn't mean that I am. I'm pursuing happiness, even if it makes the people around me unhappy.

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 was an ambitious child and I tended to be scatterbrained. If I was at school and saw a bird outside the window I wanted to follow it. I was adventurous.

I have made a lot of career mistakes, a lot and I have made a lot of personal ones too!

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.

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.

You are what you leave behind.

I consider myself something of a raconteur. I have a rather audacious sense of humour.

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.

I never started out to be an action actor. I was an ensemble actor.

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.

I do believe that American should deal from strength.