Quotes By Sylvester Stallone

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I respect a woman too much to marry her.

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.

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

I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it, then that's a noble project.

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.

I have tons of regrets, but I think that's one of the reasons that push people to create things. Out of their angst, their regret, comes the best from artists, painters and writers.

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 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.

I love being verbal in films.

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.

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.