Quotes from Sylvester Stallone

Movies are a collective art. Art by proxy.

I'd live in a museum if I could. I used to spend hours and hours in the Museum of Modern Art.

In fact, every day I'll read a chapter of some art book. I don't know why. It's just a habit.

I have all kinds of chest injuries; I tore my vein during 'Rocky II' and had 60 stitches. If you've seen 'Rocky Balboa,' you'll know how bad they look.

I tell people diets don't work. And I don't care what they say. I have tried them all.

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

A lot of women read male magazines. Of course, a lot of guys read female magazines, but they've got another issue to deal with. But a lot of women read men's magazines and think, 'Oh, this is what these guys are thinking? Studying up on the enemy here.'

I think I came along at an opportune time. I don't know if that would happen anymore, because the whole way of doing business in Hollywood has changed.

To me, the most perfect screenplay ever written will be one word, when you finally reduce it down to that. Until then, writing will be an imperfect form of communication.

Rambo isn't violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist.

I've always said that the artist dies twice. And the first death is the hardest which is the career death, the creative death. The physical death is an inevitability.

Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.

Don't discuss your dreams. Pursue them!

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.

Rocky would definitely run for councilman. Maybe mayor. But these people are actually most effective in the family unit. That's where they shine.

I really am a manifestation of my own fantasy.

When I was a kid, my mother used to feed me mashed-potato sandwiches, brussel sprout sandwiches; my brain cells were starving from lack of food. I'll eat anything. I'll eat dirt.

Gangster is the truest friend I can ever ask for.

The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as a paintbrush.

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. That's where you set your goal.

Real love is when you become selfless and you are more concerned about your mate's or children's egos than your own. You're now a giver instead of a taker.