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.

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 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 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 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.

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 could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.

I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

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.

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

It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.

'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.

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 tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.

I never quite understood these actors - though I envy them sometimes - who can lie out for a year or two. I feel as though time is a real pressing issue, and I want to get as much work done in the time that I have left.

I'm not right wing, I'm not left wing. I love my country.

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.

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

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.

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

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