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Sylvester Stallone Quotes

I wanted to show I had balls at age 60. Just because society says I’m old, doesn’t mean that I am. I’m pursuing happiness, even if it makes the people around me unhappy.

– Sylvester Stallone

Why he brought character Rocky out of retirement to make sixth and final instalment for movie Rocky Balboa

Early on everyone should do, every time they do a big film, they should do a little film. It really does keep you grounded.

– Sylvester Stallone

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.

– Sylvester Stallone

People don’t realize that when they ‘throw out’ their back, it’s often because of weak abs. These muscles are essential for lower-back strength and good posture.

– Sylvester Stallone

I try to combine in my paintings cinematic feeling, emotional feeling, and sometimes actually writing on the page to combine all the different elements of communication.

– 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 more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time.

– Sylvester Stallone

I know I can’t play funny roles in movies. I tried, and it didn’t work.

– 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 could be. We can’t all be the star of the team, but we can be a star in our life.

– Sylvester Stallone

When I saw ‘Hercules,’ my mind just exploded because I was extremely thin; I was insecure. I literally ran out of the theatre and started lifting things, anything I could think of – milk crates. I’m still lifting things. It changed my life.

– Sylvester Stallone

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.

– 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

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.

– Sylvester Stallone

The body needs to rest. It needs a lot less exercise than you think.

– Sylvester Stallone

Clothing is the first step to building a character.

– Sylvester Stallone

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

– 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

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

– 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

Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that’s just the way it is.

– Sylvester Stallone

I consider myself something of a raconteur. I have a rather audacious sense of humour.

– Sylvester Stallone

People that spend time in a foxhole – they’re never going to find that relationship anywhere else again… Everything else pales next to that. When you think about the Second World War vets – more than even the Vietnam vets – there’s a brotherhood.

– 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

When people meet me, they’re often surprised – I talk a great deal.

– Sylvester Stallone

The trouble with remakes is that people fall in love with the original. It’s like peanut butter. If you try to change the taste of peanut butter, you’re in trouble.

– Sylvester Stallone

I have a fear of heights that borders on mania.

– Sylvester Stallone

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

– 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

Boxing is sort of an inevitability. We know they are going to be pounding each other.

– 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

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