Quotes By Sylvester Stallone

Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived.

When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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.