Quotes By Sylvester Stallone

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 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.

If you don't have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life.

When you're scared, when you're hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you're going to see what you're really made of.

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

Once is a man's life, for one mortal moment, he must make a grab for immorality; if not, he has not lived.

A lot of actors, and artists in general, never feel secure in love. They always feel everything's going to be taken away from them, professionally and personally; they're extremely emotional and volatile.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I'm not right wing, I'm not left wing. I love my country.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager.

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'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.

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