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

Life's not about how hard of a hit you can give... it's about how many you can take, and still keep moving…

— Sylvester Stallone

I am drawing on a lot of my feelings that are in sync with many people's feelings about facing the last chapter…

— Sylvester Stallone

The only thing that I haven't done is perform brain surgery on myself. I've been very, very lucky. I've spared Shakespeare undue…

— Sylvester Stallone

When you are young, you often think that the world spins around you. You think you can do anything, can take the…

— Sylvester Stallone

Making a movie is the same as an orchestra; it's moving all the different instruments and the sounds, the kinetic and the…

— 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.

— Sylvester Stallone

The men in Vietnam weren't allowed to fight the war with any kind of concern to win by the government. It was…

— Sylvester Stallone

I abused my body so much throughout my career that I am literally held together by glue. The stuff I took thickens…

— 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…

— Sylvester Stallone

The champion's management says let's do this for real, for charity. Rocky says no but decides to be true to himself even…

— Sylvester Stallone

I'm astounded by people who take eighteen years to write something. That's how long it took that guy to write Madame Bovary,…

— Sylvester Stallone

It took me a long time to be convinced that marriage was right for me because I've come from a long line…

— Sylvester Stallone

I'll always have this blue-collar connection. For every guy, there is an opportunity to be a lot better than he thought he…

— 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

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…

— Sylvester Stallone

I think people of all occupations, whether it's the camera - puller or the man who's doing the catering, they can identify…

— 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…

— 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

I thought marriage was tough. Golf's like going over Niagara Falls in a barrel! It's a psychological game that gets into your…

— Sylvester Stallone

What I'm trying to do now in my life - not just with the building, but with everything - is to construct…

— Sylvester Stallone

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

— 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…

— Sylvester Stallone

Age is a state of old mind. It gets to a point where if you get old enough, you forget how old…

— Sylvester Stallone

We're all expendable. We think the world's going to stop when a pope dies, or a king. And then... life goes on.

— Sylvester Stallone

You cannot train yourself. I feel the same way about Christianity and about what the church is: The church is the gym…

— Sylvester Stallone

The more I go to church and the more I turn myself over to the process of believing in Jesus and listening…

— Sylvester Stallone

I know people get upset and go, 'They're going to take away the assault weapon'. But who needs an assault weapon? Like,…

— Sylvester Stallone

Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people, you can…

— 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…

— Sylvester Stallone

If you're willing to take the humiliation of sticking your head above the crowd, maybe it's, you know, the pleasure will be…

— Sylvester Stallone

Often people going into directing want to learn as much as they possibly can about "technique." And I say the hell with…

— 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

For every guy, there is an opportunity to be a lot better than he thought he could be. We can't all be…

— Sylvester Stallone

Action film is really easy to do, you just get in a car and smash through things and it's called action. The…

— Sylvester Stallone

I've kind of fashioned my life after a Slinky. Bend me in a million shapes, and eventually I'll spring back to what…

— Sylvester Stallone

I try to eliminate as much dialogue as possible, and I guess Rambo is my really best experiment with how to eliminate…

— Sylvester Stallone

The one thing in my films, I only kill people who need to be killed, or killers killing killers. And I believe…

— Sylvester Stallone