Stallone Movies Quotes & Sayings

I think the action movies in the 80s and 90s were different. It was a testosterone age. Steven Seagal, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Sylvester Stallone - they fuelled my childhood. But now I don't think I'd like to do just action, I don't enjoy that. — Channing Tatum

I want to turn my attention to movies about love relationships. Exploring the female psyche - there ought to be some interesting discoveries there. Love stories. If you do it right, people want to hear romantic dialog. — Sylvester Stallone

Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I don't hear your words: your voice reverberates against my body like another kind of caress, another kind of penetration. I have no power over your voice. It comes straight from you into me. I could stuff my ears and it would find its way into my blood and make it rise. — Anais Nin

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

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

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

Being President is a little like being the grounds-keeper at a cemetery: there's plenty of people below you but no one's listening. — William J. Clinton

Love your readers to death! — Darren Rowse

There was definitely a pecking order, and when Stallone walked in, we were like, "All hail!" He came in with his big forearms, pointing and telling everybody where he wanted the cameras with his big cigar ablazing, and you just go, "This is Stallone!" with admiration, because none of us would be here without this guy. That's the thing, he changed movies forever — Terry Crews

We all grew up in that era. I'm a little younger than these guys [Will Forte and John Solomon], but I would say all of us are huge fans of the original "MacGyver" series, and obviously we found that inspiration for the original pitch for MacGruber. We took his name and made it stupid. In terms of the inspiration for the movie, that really came from our love for late '80s/early '90s action movies - the whole "Lethal Weapon" series and "Rambo" and "Die Hard," every single [Arnold] Schwarzenegger and [Sylvester] Stallone film. — Will Forte

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

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

I just fight in my movies, never in real life. — Sylvester Stallone

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

When he comes, he makes a noise deep in his throat that is so raw and animal and sexual that I think if he merely looked at me and made that noise, I might explode in an orgasm. — Karen Marie Moning

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

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

The name given to that one dramatic moment in an epidemic when everything can change all at once is the Tipping Point. — Malcolm Gladwell

The action movies changed radically when it became possible to Velcro your muscles on. It was the beginning of a new era. The visual took over. The special effects became more important than the single person. That was the beginning of the end. — Sylvester Stallone

Movies are the work of a collective conscious. It takes 500-800 people on a movie to complete a vision. — Sylvester Stallone

I made some truly awful movies. 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes. — Sylvester Stallone

Show your work, and when the right people show up, pay close attention to them, because they'll have a lot to show you. — Austin Kleon

Regulatory failings mean that the cost of breaking the law is far below that of obeying it - businesses are happier to pay fines than to control pollution. — Ma Jun

I'm nobody's sweetheart. — Sara Claridge

Jesus don't walk on water no more; his feet leak. — Edward Abbey

Sustainability is best illustrated by those who sell food ... just so they afford something to eat. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

On the one hand, you have these huge budget films that cost millions of dollars. They are effects driven, they don't have well known actors in them, and they are making money. Well, some of them are. One the other hand, you have Stallone and Statham, and guys like DeNiro and Pacino, and Costner, who are all trying to make movies about real people. They are interested in character driven projects. — Dolph Lundgren