Quotes By Sylvester Stallone

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.

You've got to show your soul otherwise you're just a piece of equipment.

Most action is based on redemption and revenge, and that's a formula. Moby Dick was formula. It's how you get to the conclusion that makes it interesting.

When you're on top and you lead the parade, everyone's there throwing lilies and lilac water on your head. But when those parades have gone by and there's a storm in your heart, there are very few people that are going to sit there and listen to you bemoan life.

I love being verbal in films.

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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'm pretty spiritual; I believe a lot in the spirit of man.

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

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

Rambo isn't violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist.

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.

When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn't expect me in comedies or musicals.

I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

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

It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.

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.

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

I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.