Top 100 Sylvester Stallone Quotes
#1. Dreams cost nothing. They are free. The hard part is just keeping them going.
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#2. 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.
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#3. 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.'
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#4. Age is a state of old mind. It gets to a point where if you get old enough, you forget how old you are, and that's the best thing. And then you walk around kind of like in a fog.
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#6. 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.
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#8. Today's action hero, his skills are through technology. He can fly, he can throw a bolt of lightning, he can freeze people.
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#9. 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.
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#10. 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.
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#12. What I'm trying to do now in my life - not just with the building, but with everything - is to construct things that will have enduring qualities, and won't just be ephemeral flashes in the pan.
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#13. 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.
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#14. We do two things in life: We race the clock and everything is a struggle. One way or not, it's a metaphorical battle all of the time.
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#15. You know you've been around when they start to remake your own movies when you're still alive.
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#17. I know I'm incredibly unpredictable, and that's the only thing I'm sure of.
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#18. The man who can best gets along with women, is the man who can get along without them.
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#19. 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.
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#20. I've been involved in something which was chaotic and insane. All I can say now is that I am, and intend to stay, a single man.
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#21. I don't fall into the physical manifestation of a man of letters. So I guess people assume the scripts are delivered to me under the door.
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#22. 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.
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#23. 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.
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#24. On the sequel, you've lost the element of surprise. Usually, on the first one you may not go very, very deep into character; the second one you start to explore the character a bit more.
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#26. In fact, every day I'll read a chapter of some art book. I don't know why. It's just a habit.
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#27. Remember the mind is your best muscle ... BIG ARMS can move rocks, but BIG WORDS can move mountains ... Ride the brain train for success ...
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#28. Boxing is a great exercise ... as long as you can yell "cut" whenever you want to.
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#29. Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.
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#30. If it's not broken, break it. That's how new discoveries are made. That's why everything that changes life is called a breakthrough.
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#31. 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.
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#32. If you don't have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life.
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#34. Boxing is a great way to vent. I don't know if there is a better way, I think for women too. There is something so primal about it and it's the best exercise in the world, even if you don't ever get in the ring.
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#35. Life is more than sunglasses and hit movies. Reality - that's the main event.
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#36. I tell people diets don't work. And I don't care what they say. I have tried them all.
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#37. 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.
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#38. There aren't a lot of opportunities for that rite of passage that makes you a man. War is one of them, and violent sports are another.
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#39. 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.
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#40. When I saw 'Hercules,' my mind just exploded because I was extremely thin; I was insecure. I literally ran out of the theatre and started lifting things, anything I could think of - milk crates. I'm still lifting things. It changed my life.
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#41. Every time I've failed, people had me out for the count, but I always come back.
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#43. I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.
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#46. If you think people are inherently good, you get rid of the police for 24 hours - see what happens.
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#47. The character of Rocky was built on the idea that he was chosen to do something. That's why the first image in Rocky is the picture of Christ.
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#48. At the very end, the one person who Rambo should kill, he doesn't kill. He lets it live. Because you can't kill that kind of hypocritical bureaucracy. It goes on forever.
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#50. Testosterone to me is so important for a sense of well-being when you get older.
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#51. No one's life is totally morbid. Even on a subtle scale there's little flashes of enlightenment and of happiness and joy.
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#52. I love being so tight on people in close-ups that the veins in their eyes look like the Mississippi River.
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#53. All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves.
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#54. Some people maybe try to justify their laziness. You take out what you put in and the more I go to church and the more I turn myself over to the process of believing in Jesus, and to listening to his word and have him guide my hand I feel the pressure's off me.
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#55. I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.
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#57. If I'd made it right away as an actor, I would've stopped at a certain level and stayed there, probably as a character actor.
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#59. That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.
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#60. Rocky is a very predictable movie. The ending is a foregone conclusion.
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#61. When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.
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#62. Most of the films I myself like don't do very well. Every director, he has a choice, whether to go for subtlety and try to articulate every minute detail, or to go for the broad strokes and hope that the people will fill in between the lines. I tend to go for the broader strokes.
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#64. Years ago I was diagnosed with a condition, and my doctors prescribed human growth hormone and testosterone for its treatment. Under medical supervision, I have continued to use both medications.
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#65. 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.
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#66. 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!
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#67. Going in one more round when you don't think you can that's what makes all the difference in your life.
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#68. With a lot of comedians, one of their major attributes is that they look comedic, with a certain hangdog or manic expression. I look like the neighborhood bully. That doesn't elicit laughter.
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#69. 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.
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#71. Often people going into directing want to learn as much as they possibly can about "technique." And I say the hell with that.
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#72. Movies are the work of a collective conscious. It takes 500-800 people on a movie to complete a vision.
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#73. 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.
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#74. You've got to show your soul otherwise you're just a piece of equipment.
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#75. I try to tell people that just because you're buff and cut doesn't mean you're healthy.
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#76. Every morning, I crawl out of bed. I sit there and think, 'Do I really need this?' And I drag myself to the gym in my garage. It's not fun. I hate it. I work out alone. Weights.
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#77. I've made a lot of career mistakes. A lot. Actually, a lot of personal ones, too.
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#78. You have to grab life by the throat and squeeze before it grabs you by your neck and breaks it. Own your destiny.
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#79. When I'm on a location, I pick a restaurant that's close and private and eat all my meals there.
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#80. I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.
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#81. I think people of all occupations, whether it's the camera - puller or the man who's doing the catering, they can identify with Rambo's frustrations, with the veteran's frustrations.
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#82. 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.
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#83. Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but the loyalty never fades.
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#84. Once is a man's life, for one mortal moment, he must make a grab for immorality; if not, he has not lived.
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#85. In a contest between me and a bulldog, you would say the bulldog is cuter.
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#86. When you're on top and you lead the parade, everyone's there throwing lilies and lilac water on your head. But when those parades have gone by and there's a storm in your heart, there are very few people that are going to sit there and listen to you bemoan life.
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#87. 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.
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#89. I think there's a kind of built-in arrogance to anyone who considers themself an artist. They want to feel as though like they can run the whole spectrum. "I can do it all. I can do minimalism, and I can do classical art." Well, that's not true.
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#91. Once I stopped trying to always do everything my way, and once I asked for God's help, things have truly gone a different direction.
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#92. 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.
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#93. I think everyone has questions in their mind. Did they do their very best?
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#94. 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.
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#96. 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.
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#97. When you find the right components in your life, the right people, that gel with you, then you feel as though you're invincible. It may be a fallacy, but you at least feel as though you can take all that life has to dish out.
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#98. I've always boxed a certain way. But with Rocky, the character himself had to be kind of awkward. So I had to learn to fight that way.
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#100. I think there comes a time when you realize that you need God in your life, God's Word, and the spiritual guidance that only He can give.
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