Sylvester Stallone Quotes & Sayings

I'm more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time. — Sylvester Stallone

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. — Sylvester Stallone

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. — Sylvester Stallone

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? — Sylvester Stallone

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. — Sylvester Stallone

A lot of women read male magazines. Of course, a lot of guys read female magazines, but they've got another issue to deal with. But a lot of women read men's magazines and think, 'Oh, this is what these guys are thinking? Studying up on the enemy here.' — Sylvester Stallone

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

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

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. — Sylvester Stallone

I think I came along at an opportune time. I don't know if that would happen anymore, because the whole way of doing business in Hollywood has changed. — Sylvester Stallone

Ya gotta do what ya gotta do. — Sylvester Stallone

I learned the real meaning of love. Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people, you can set your watch by them. And that's love, even if it doesn't seem very exciting. — Sylvester Stallone

I know people get upset and go, 'They're going to take away the assault weapon'. But who needs an assault weapon? Like, really, unless you're carrying out an assault. — Sylvester Stallone

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. — Sylvester Stallone

You have to be really loyal to the people that supported you when you were coming up. — Sylvester Stallone

Movies are a whole different ball-game, now. It's much more of a business - very scientific. — Sylvester Stallone

The day I can't walk is the day I quit movies. — Sylvester Stallone

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. — Sylvester Stallone

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

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

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. — Sylvester Stallone

There might have been a period around 'Tango & Cash' when I was nearly fashionable. My problem is that my weight's always been changing for the movies I'm in. — Sylvester Stallone

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

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. — Sylvester Stallone

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. — Sylvester Stallone

The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as a paintbrush. — Sylvester Stallone

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. — Sylvester Stallone

Testosterone to me is so important for a sense of well-being when you get older. — Sylvester Stallone

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

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

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. — Sylvester Stallone

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. — Sylvester Stallone

Back there I could fly a gunship, I could drive a tank, I was in charge of million dollar equipment, back here I can't even hold a job PARKING CARS! — Sylvester Stallone

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

Rocky would definitely run for councilman. Maybe mayor. But these people are actually most effective in the family unit. That's where they shine. — Sylvester Stallone

Some actors are brilliant character guys. They submerge. — Sylvester Stallone

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. — Sylvester Stallone

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

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

Gangster is the truest friend I can ever ask for. — Sylvester Stallone

You cannot train yourself. I feel the same way about Christianity and about what the church is: The church is the gym of the soul. — Sylvester Stallone

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

I'm not just painting for painting's sake. I want to be truthful. — Sylvester Stallone

When I was a kid, my mother used to feed me mashed-potato sandwiches, brussel sprout sandwiches; my brain cells were starving from lack of food. I'll eat anything. I'll eat dirt. — Sylvester Stallone

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. — Sylvester Stallone

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

I know I can't play funny roles in movies. I tried, and it didn't work. — Sylvester Stallone

Most of the films I myself like don't do very well. Every director, he has a choice, whether to go for subtlety and try to articulate every minute detail, or to go for the broad strokes and hope that the people will fill in between the lines. I tend to go for the broader strokes. — Sylvester Stallone

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. — Sylvester Stallone

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. — Sylvester Stallone

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

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. — Sylvester Stallone

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. — Sylvester Stallone

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

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

I feel that America is like a child that grew up so strong and so fast and so tall that it became self-conscious about its size and started to stoop over so as not to offend anyone. — Sylvester Stallone

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. — Sylvester Stallone

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. — Sylvester Stallone

Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake. — Sylvester Stallone

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

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. — Sylvester Stallone

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

Study people's success stories hard. Study their failures even harder. — Sylvester Stallone

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. — Sylvester Stallone

I never quite understood these actors - though I envy them sometimes - who can lie out for a year or two. I feel as though time is a real pressing issue, and I want to get as much work done in the time that I have left. — Sylvester Stallone

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

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

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

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. — Sylvester Stallone

There's no one in the world close to Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is a phenomenon. He's brilliant. — Sylvester Stallone

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

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

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

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

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. — Sylvester Stallone

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

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. — Sylvester Stallone

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. — Sylvester Stallone

I've done my "mind over matter" movies, and I think probably that people aren't really interested in seeing me do that anymore. I think I'm kind of past my prime to do dramatic films. I think it'd become kind of like almost a pathetic cry out to be recognized as a serious drama actor. — Sylvester Stallone

Quite often in acting, you have to play a certain part; you cannot speak as much as you want to speak. — Sylvester Stallone

I think there's a kind of built-in arrogance to anyone who considers themself an artist. They want to feel as though like they can run the whole spectrum. "I can do it all. I can do minimalism, and I can do classical art." Well, that's not true. — Sylvester Stallone

The biggest and most interesting crisis in the world is the human crisis, and it never gets boring. It goes back to Shakespeare. You don't need a gimmick; it's just man against man and their intolerance of each other. — Sylvester Stallone

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. — Sylvester Stallone

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

I wish I had thought of Velcro muscles myself. I didn't have to go to the gym for all those years, all the hours wedded to the iron game, as we call it. — Sylvester Stallone

I love being verbal in films. — Sylvester Stallone

When a parent loses a child, there is no greater pain. — Sylvester Stallone

Nothing's harder than writing. There's no comparison. With directing, you can bounce a lot of ideas around. There's tremendous support - you've got editors and sound mixers. With writing, it's all you, and it's just crippling when people tear up your pages. — Sylvester Stallone

I have tremendous respect for fighters and I always tell people that boxing in movies is one thing but when you get into the ring for real, even the worst heavyweight in the world is going to murder you. You've just got to appreciate the pain and the suffering and the glory and skill that goes into what they do. That's why I love the sport so much. — Sylvester Stallone

Plan B. You've always got to have a Plan B. — Sylvester Stallone

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. — Sylvester Stallone

Rocky is a very predictable movie. The ending is a foregone conclusion. — Sylvester Stallone

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

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. — Sylvester Stallone

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

I'll always have this blue-collar connection. 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. — Sylvester Stallone

Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that's just the way it is. — Sylvester Stallone

My life has always been chaotic. From the time I got dressed in the back of a deflated, flat-tired, fish-smelling station wagon for Rocky. It's always been do it yourself, kind of like paper-clip it together. — Sylvester Stallone

I do believe that American should deal from strength. — Sylvester Stallone

I wanted to show I had balls at age 60. — Sylvester Stallone