Quotes from Sylvester Stallone

I loved 'Rocky' and 'Rambo', and am very proud of them.

Usually whenever you're scared of something, do it. If you're not afraid of it, don't do it.

I think I'm a much better painter than an actor.

Painting is as close as a person can get to actually capturing the heat of the moment.

When a parent loses a child, there is no greater pain.

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

The action movies changed radically when it became possible to Velcro your muscles on. It was the beginning of a new era. The visual took over. The special effects became more important than the single person. That was the beginning of the end.

Voices are like fingerprints, from Cagney to Bogart. They never lost it. My voice is instrumental in categorizing me.

A lot of actors, and artists in general, never feel secure in love. They always feel everything's going to be taken away from them, professionally and personally; they're extremely emotional and volatile.

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

You are what you leave behind.

I'm a patriot of the heart.

My life has always been chaotic. 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.

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 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.

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

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

When boxers are in the ring, they're simple. It's when the fight is over, that's when the other fight, the real fight, begins. That's the problem.

Some actors are brilliant character guys. They submerge.

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.

There's no one in the world close to Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is a phenomenon. He's brilliant.

I think kids growing up, if they were picked on and feeling inferior at 12, they're going to feel that way at 72. You just deal with it better. I'm serious.

You've got to show your soul otherwise you're just a piece of equipment.

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.