Sylvester Stallone Quotes

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

I abused my body so much throughout my career that I am literally held together by glue. The stuff I took thickens the bones and reinforces the tendons.

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

Certain characters, mostly heroes, have to be the straight silent type; that is part of the make-up.

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

The champion's management says let's do this for real, for charity. Rocky says no but decides to be true to himself even though he's going to be berated by everyone. Just to compete, not to win.

If you look at people that have survived crashing in the mountains and lived up in the snow for 40 days - it's possible to do extraordinary feats.

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

Sometimes I write with music on, and if I'm in a good flow, I don't even hear it.

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

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

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

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

It's great the way the old-time directors used to manipulate the hell out of you. You see someone dying and all of a sudden a ghost would come out and they go walking hand in hand up the stairway.

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

To be really artful, though, you have to be subjective and so singular.

Often people going into directing want to learn as much as they possibly can about "technique." And I say the hell with that.

You can actually alter a person's perception when they're that young. I mean, it can affect them in a very positive way.

I just want to say that, all you do, no matter how bad your diet is, for the first six months or year, I just reduce the amount, even if it's horrible stuff. That you can deal with it.

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.

I've always said that the artist dies twice. And the first death is the hardest which is the career death, the creative death. The physical death is an inevitability.

A lot of time people are like, "oh my God, you're stereotyped." Good, then you're known for something.

The one thing in my films, I only kill people who need to be killed, or killers killing killers. And I believe that the violence is very justifiable.

I try to tell people that just because you're buff and cut doesn't mean you're healthy.

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.

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.

I've always boxed a certain way. But with Rocky, the character himself had to be kind of awkward. So I had to learn to fight that way.

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.

Sometimes when I don't want to cry, I cry. And when I want to I can't. It's subconscious. Like sexual performance.

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

If I'd made it right away as an actor, I would've stopped at a certain level and stayed there, probably as a character actor.

Eventually writing became more interesting to me than acting.

I'm usually taken for a non-intellectual, a person of limited intelligence. I don't know why, but I figure it's because physically I don't look intelligent.

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.

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

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

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.