Quotes By Sylvester Stallone

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

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 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.

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 take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

There's no one in the world close to Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is a phenomenon. He's brilliant. Just because his physique belies that, don't underestimate him.

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.

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

That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.

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.

When I tried to branch out into comedy, I didn't do very well at it, so I went back to doing what I do naturally well, or what the audience expects from me - action pictures.

When you're an actor, you're a slave to other people's visions.

In a contest between me and a bulldog, you would say the bulldog is cuter.

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

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

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.

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.

People think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in sight.

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

I'm a patriot of the heart.

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 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.

Don't be gullible, use life before it uses you. Understand there are no free lunches, and for every action you take, there's a reaction.

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.

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.

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.