Sylvester Stallone Quotes

Now if you know what you're worth. Then go out and get what you're worth.

When life hits you pretty hard, you can go into a dark corner.

The problem is, your ego sometimes tells you that you can do many things. But sometimes it's best to stay focused and be honest with yourself.

You're a disease. And I'm the cure.

Age is a state of old mind. It gets to a point where if you get old enough, you forget how old you are, and that's the best thing. And then you walk around kind of like in a fog.

Some actors are brilliant character guys. They submerge.

To me, the most perfect screenplay ever written will be one word, when you finally reduce it down to that. Until then, writing will be an imperfect form of communication.

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.

Movies are a collective art. Art by proxy.

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

Boxing is a great exercise ... as long as you can yell "cut" whenever you want to.

The world meets nobody halfway. When you want something, you gotta take it.

Everyone has this conjecture that action films are somewhat less prestigious than dramatic films. Nothing could be further from the truth. I've done them both and this is hard and dangerous.

If it's not broken, break it. That's how new discoveries are made. That's why everything that changes life is called a breakthrough.

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

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

I really am a manifestation of my own fantasy.

Every generation has to find their own heroes.

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

That's the hardest thing about doing sequels - you've lost the element of surprise.

On the sequel, you've lost the element of surprise. Usually, on the first one you may not go very, very deep into character; the second one you start to explore the character a bit more.

There's no one in the world close to Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is a phenomenon. He's brilliant. Just because his physique belies that, don't underestimate him.

Painting is as close as a person can get to actually capturing the heat of the moment.

I try to combine in my paintings cinematic feeling, emotional feeling, and sometimes actually writing on the page to combine all the different elements of communication.

A lot of guys have muscles. A lot of strong men in this world. I think it's important to show that even under all this strength there's a fragile side, a side that can be affected.

People don't realize that when they 'throw out' their back, it's often because of weak abs. These muscles are essential for lower-back strength and good posture.

If you think people are inherently good, you get rid of the police for 24 hours - see what happens.

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

It took me a long time to be convinced that marriage was right for me because I've come from a long line of broken marriages. My parents divorced, and I had two broken marriages myself.

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.'

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

I'm a big believer that, in life, we can't succeed in everything. Most times, we lose.

I'm perceived to be this solitary character, but nothing could be further from the truth.

The church is the gym of the soul.

I tell people diets don't work. And I don't care what they say. I have tried them all.

I was an insecure kid. Once I saw 'Hercules' with Steve Reeves, it completely changed my life. If I had never gone to that film, I wouldn't be here today.

I don't fall into the physical manifestation of a man of letters. So I guess people assume the scripts are delivered to me under the door.

We do two things in life: We race the clock and everything is a struggle. One way or not, it's a metaphorical battle all of the time.

The more I go to church and the more I turn myself over to the process of believing in Jesus and listening to His Word and having Him guide my hand, I feel as though the pressure is off me now.

I think I'm a much better painter than an actor.

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

I have a fear of heights that borders on mania.

I thought marriage was tough. Golf's like going over Niagara Falls in a barrel! It's a psychological game that gets into your blood.

All young men want to prove themselves.

When crossing someone's borders you have to be prepared to engage in a war that is far more brutal than if it were to take place on neutral territory.

You have to have an almost boundless reservoir of energy and interest to enter politics because quite often it's thankless and fruitless and you can't accomplish much.

Clichés are what good writing is all about. Because our lives are basically clichés.

In the movies, I kill guys with an axe. In real life, I can't control a nine-year-old girl.

Characters I've played, they used to impact my paintings, like 80 percent of the time, and especially when I was doing an action film.

With a lot of comedians, one of their major attributes is that they look comedic, with a certain hangdog or manic expression. I look like the neighborhood bully. That doesn't elicit laughter.