Quotes from 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.

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.

Life's not about how hard of a hit you can give... It's about how many you can take, and still keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done! Now, if you know what you're worth, then go out and get what you're worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits, And not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody. COWARDS DO THAT AND THAT AIN'T YOU. YOU'RE BETTER THAN THEM!

I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.

But it ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward; how much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done! Now, if you know what you're worth, then go out and get what you're worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain't you. You're better than that!

Halloween is the only time people can become what they want to be without getting fired.

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

The biggest and most interesting crisis in the world is the human crisis, and it never gets boring. It goes back to Shakespeare. You don't need a gimmick; it's just man against man and their intolerance of each other.

Jesus is the inspiration for anyone to go the distance.

If bad decorating was a hanging offense, there'd be bodies hanging from every tree!

Nothing's harder than writing. There's no comparison. With directing, you can bounce a lot of ideas around. There's tremendous support - you've got editors and sound mixers. With writing, it's all you, and it's just crippling when people tear up your pages.

My favorite snack would have to be Fritos, no doubt about it. Fritos and mayonnaise. I know. Really healthy, isn't it?

I love being verbal in films.

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

I love art more than anything in the world except for my family.

I wish my daughters would box. I'm so worried about the guys coming up to them. I would love them to be able to smack a guy right off a bar stool.

People asked if I could have played the Terminator. Are you kidding? Not a chance, I never could have played the Terminator.

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.

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

Boxing is a great exercise ... as long as you can yell "cut" whenever you want to.

The world meets nobody halfway. When you want something, you gotta take it.

When I'm doing a movie, I eat the same thing every day. For lunch, it's tuna salad or chicken salad and cole slaw. That's it. For dinner it's either veal and rice, fish and rice or steak and rice. It gets boring; boy, does it get boring.

I want to turn my attention to movies about love relationships. Exploring the female psyche - there ought to be some interesting discoveries there. Love stories. If you do it right, people want to hear romantic dialog.

All young men want to prove themselves.