Quotes from Sylvester Stallone

I just fight in my movies, never in real life.

No one's life is totally morbid. Even on a subtle scale there's little flashes of enlightenment and of happiness and joy.

There'll never be a 'Rocky IV.' You gotta call a halt.

Every time I've failed, people had me out for the count, but I always come back.

Time is truly the great enemy. It's not the great healer, it's the great stealer.

Most action is based on redemption and revenge, and that's a formula. Moby Dick was formula. It's how you get to the conclusion that makes it interesting.

Now it really is, believe it or not, 90% of the films are green lit, not by the studio heads, but by the marketing department.

I have a fear of heights that borders on mania.

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.

It took me a long time to be convinced that marriage was right for me because I've come from a long line of broken marriages. My parents divorced, and I had two broken marriages myself.

Characters I've played, they used to impact my paintings, like 80 percent of the time, and especially when I was doing an action film.

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

I believe an artist dies twice. The first time, it's just terrible - I've been there when the phone isn't ringing for years.

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

It's great the way the old-time directors used to manipulate the hell out of you. You see someone dying and all of a sudden a ghost would come out and they go walking hand in hand up the stairway.

A lot of time people are like, "oh my God, you're stereotyped." Good, then you're known for something.

Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but the loyalty never fades.

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

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.

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 respect a woman too much to marry her.

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.

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.

I'd rather do something I love badly than to feel bad about not doing something I love.