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When you're an actor, you're a slave to other people's visions.
— Sylvester Stallone
Your brain is triggered to produce.
— Sylvester Stallone
Movies are the work of a collective conscious. It takes 500-800 people on a movie to complete a vision.
— Sylvester Stallone
The problem is, your ego sometimes tells you that you can do many things. But sometimes it's best to stay focused and be honest with yourself.
— Sylvester Stallone
There'll never be a 'Rocky IV.' You gotta call a halt.
— Sylvester Stallone
If you express yourself too much, you're considered weak.
— Sylvester Stallone
'Rocky' represents the optimistic side of life, and 'Rambo' represents purgatory.
— Sylvester Stallone
The character of Rocky was built on the idea that he was chosen to do something. That's why the first image in Rocky is the picture of Christ.
— Sylvester Stallone
Through failure, I found different ways to reverse my problems and get into the mainstream of Hollywood.
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In fact, every day I'll read a chapter of some art book. I don't know why. It's just a habit.
— Sylvester Stallone
Rambo isn't violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist.
— Sylvester Stallone
I guess the best thing I do of all is ride. Horsemanship, I have a natural flair for it.
— Sylvester Stallone
I'm not right wing, I'm not left wing. I love my country.
— Sylvester Stallone
Study people's success stories hard. Study their failures even harder.
— Sylvester Stallone
People asked if I could have played the Terminator. Are you kidding? Not a chance, I never could have played the Terminator.
— Sylvester Stallone
If bad decorating was a hanging offense, there'd be bodies hanging from every tree!
— Sylvester Stallone
When life hits you pretty hard, you can go into a dark corner.
— Sylvester Stallone
Every time I've failed, people had me out for the count, but I always come back.
— Sylvester Stallone
I respect a woman too much to marry her.
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Just because society says I'm old doesn't mean I am.
— Sylvester Stallone
I try to eliminate as much dialogue as possible, and I guess Rambo is my really best experiment with how to eliminate dialogue.
— Sylvester Stallone
I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.
— Sylvester Stallone
To know that the odds are so high that only through the perishing of your life will the minions survive, that's love. That's heroism.
— Sylvester Stallone
Movies are a whole different ball-game, now. It's much more of a business - very scientific.
— Sylvester Stallone
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.
— Sylvester Stallone
I realized, the older I get, the more difficult life becomes. It's not easier, it's more difficult.
— Sylvester Stallone
I'm not a genetically superior person. I built my body.
— Sylvester Stallone
Your spiritual sense will make you either a winner or a loser.
— 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.
— Sylvester Stallone
Life is more than sunglasses and hit movies. Reality - that's the main event.
— Sylvester Stallone
Polo is like tennis - you literally have to live it.
— Sylvester Stallone
When I'm on a location, I pick a restaurant that's close and private and eat all my meals there.
— Sylvester Stallone
The world will never come together and say, 'We are one.'
— Sylvester Stallone
I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.
— Sylvester Stallone
Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.
— Sylvester Stallone
When you are young, you often think that the world spins around you. You think you can do anything, can take the world on your shoulders.
— Sylvester Stallone
Quite often in acting, you have to play a certain part; you cannot speak as much as you want to speak.
— Sylvester Stallone
If I'd made it right away as an actor, I would've stopped at a certain level and stayed there, probably as a character actor.
— Sylvester Stallone
There's no one in the world close to Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is a phenomenon. He's brilliant.
— Sylvester Stallone
A lot of guys don't want to admit that they have a propensity for generosity and for violence.
— Sylvester Stallone
No one's life is totally morbid. Even on a subtle scale there's little flashes of enlightenment and of happiness and joy.
— Sylvester Stallone
I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.
— Sylvester Stallone
I believe an artist dies twice. The first time, it's just terrible - I've been there when the phone isn't ringing for years.
— Sylvester Stallone
I loved 'Rocky' and 'Rambo', and am very proud of them.
— Sylvester Stallone
Some actors are brilliant character guys. They submerge.
— Sylvester Stallone
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.
— Sylvester Stallone
I am not the richest, smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and going and going.
— Sylvester Stallone
For 'Rocky II,' I got a torn pectoral muscle, I got all beat up inside, I had to have an operation to splice things back together.
— Sylvester Stallone
I'm a patriot of the heart.
— Sylvester Stallone
Gangster is the truest friend I can ever ask for.
— Sylvester Stallone
Sometimes when I don't want to cry, I cry. And when I want to I can't. It's subconscious. Like sexual performance.
— Sylvester Stallone
The one thing in my films, I only kill people who need to be killed, or killers killing killers. And I believe that the violence is very justifiable.
— Sylvester Stallone
Consider the source ... Don't be a fool by listening to a fool.
— Sylvester Stallone
All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves.
— Sylvester Stallone
I don't fall into the physical manifestation of a man of letters. So I guess people assume the scripts are delivered to me under the door.
— Sylvester Stallone
Painting is as close as a person can get to actually capturing the heat of the moment.
— Sylvester Stallone
You know you've been around when they start to remake your own movies when you're still alive.
— Sylvester Stallone
Whenever I don't get injured, the film is a dud. I didn't bleed on 'Rhinestone.' I didn't bleed on 'Stop! Or My Mom will Shoot.'
— Sylvester Stallone
You can actually alter a person's perception when they're that young. I mean, it can affect them in a very positive way.
— Sylvester Stallone
At the end of the day, 'Rocky' is a love story, and he could never have reached the final bell without Adrian.
— 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.
— Sylvester Stallone
Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that's just the way it is.
— Sylvester Stallone
I'm always looking for a new challenge. There are a lot of mountains to climb out there. When I run out of mountains, I'll build a new one.
— Sylvester Stallone
Usually whenever you're scared of something, do it. If you're not afraid of it, don't do it.
— Sylvester Stallone
I just fight in my movies, never in real life.
— Sylvester Stallone
Life's not about how hard of a hit you can give ... it's about how many you can take, and still keep moving forward.
— Sylvester Stallone
I've had a lot of operations. I'm kind of like Franken-actor.
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Every generation, including mine, has to find their own heroes.
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It ain't over till its over
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Nothing is real if you don't believe in who you are!
— Sylvester Stallone
That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.
— Sylvester Stallone
If it's not broken, break it. That's how new discoveries are made. That's why everything that changes life is called a breakthrough.
— Sylvester Stallone
Clothing is the first step to building a character.
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The day I can't walk is the day I quit movies.
— Sylvester Stallone
I'd rather do something I love badly than to feel bad about not doing something I love.
— Sylvester Stallone
My favorite snack would have to be Fritos, no doubt about it. Fritos and mayonnaise. I know. Really healthy, isn't it?
— Sylvester Stallone
Eventually writing became more interesting to me than acting.
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I try to tell people that just because you're buff and cut doesn't mean you're healthy.
— Sylvester Stallone
Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.
— Sylvester Stallone
If you look back at life, I bet you will regret about 80% of your actions. But life consists of all mistakes.
— Sylvester Stallone
Time is truly the great enemy. It's not the great healer, it's the great stealer.
— Sylvester Stallone
I'm not just painting for painting's sake. I want to be truthful.
— Sylvester Stallone
Voices are like fingerprints, from Cagney to Bogart. They never lost it. My voice is instrumental in categorizing me.
— Sylvester Stallone
When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.
— Sylvester Stallone
I love being so tight on people in close-ups that the veins in their eyes look like the Mississippi River.
— Sylvester Stallone
Going in one more round when you don't think you can that's what makes all the difference in your life.
— Sylvester Stallone
When crossing someone's borders you have to be prepared to engage in a war that is far more brutal than if it were to take place on neutral territory.
— Sylvester Stallone
If you come into my house, I'm going to fight much more viciously to get you out than if we were on a neutral piece of land.
— Sylvester Stallone
You cannot train yourself. I feel the same way about Christianity and about what the church is: The church is the gym of the soul.
— Sylvester Stallone
Now it really is, believe it or not, 90% of the films are green lit, not by the studio heads, but by the marketing department.
— Sylvester Stallone
Once I stopped trying to always do everything my way, and once I asked for God's help, things have truly gone a different direction.
— Sylvester Stallone
That's the hardest thing about doing sequels - you've lost the element of surprise.
— Sylvester Stallone
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.
— Sylvester Stallone
I really am a manifestation of my own fantasy.
— Sylvester Stallone
If you look at people that have survived crashing in the mountains and lived up in the snow for 40 days - it's possible to do extraordinary feats.
— Sylvester Stallone
In a contest between me and a bulldog, you would say the bulldog is cuter.
— Sylvester Stallone
The man who can best gets along with women, is the man who can get along without them.
— Sylvester Stallone
Boxing is a great exercise ... as long as you can yell "cut" whenever you want to.
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