Quotes By Sylvester Stallone

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 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.

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.

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.

I respect a woman too much to marry her.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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'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.

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

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.

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

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

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I'm a patriot of the heart.

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.