Quotes from Sylvester Stallone

I'm not just painting for painting's sake. I want to be truthful.

Often people going into directing want to learn as much as they possibly can about "technique." And I say the hell with that.

Sometimes when I don't want to cry, I cry. And when I want to I can't. It's subconscious. Like sexual performance.

Once is a man's life, for one mortal moment, he must make a grab for immorality; if not, he has not lived.

I thought I had reached a point in life where everything would be smooth. But it is not. It just gets more jagged and pitted and filled with turns that take you into the dark recesses of your mind. It never seems to get easy.

I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.

I am not the smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeeded because I keep going, and going, and going.

The phenomenal thing that happened to me is that I was able to create two memorable men: one is the ultimate optimist, Rocky, and then you have Rambo, the ultimate pessimist. You're going to always be remembered for them, no matter what you do.

When crossing someone's borders you have to be prepared to engage in a war that is far more brutal than if it were to take place on neutral territory.

The men in Vietnam weren't allowed to fight the war with any kind of concern to win by the government. It was like a war of attrition.

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

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.

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

I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.

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

I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.

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

A lot of guys have muscles. A lot of strong men in this world. I think it's important to show that even under all this strength there's a fragile side, a side that can be affected.

I learned the real meaning of love. Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people, you can set your watch by them. And that's love, even if it doesn't seem very exciting.

I respect a woman too much to marry her.

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.

The heart ages last.

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

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.