Top 100 Stallone's Quotes
#1. I knew that Sylvester Stallone's involvement would outweigh everything else from the film. I think people went into Creed expecting a boxing movie and something that superficially ties Stallone in, but Creed was really well written.
Bun B.
#2. When I read Copland, I really wanted Stallone's part.
Ray Liotta
#3. I had a dream about you. You were wearing Sylvester Stallone's sneer as pants, but his lips were saggy on your legs, so you had to wear a mustache as a belt.
Dora J. Arod
#4. Action film is really easy to do, you just get in a car and smash through things and it's called action. The real key is what happens between the action when it's quiet. Loud is easy. Quiet, real hard.
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#5. Scientists believe they may have discovered a primitive form of life on Jupiter's moon Europa. That primitive form of life? You guessed it, Frank Stallone.
Norm MacDonald
#6. 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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#7. Sylvester Stallone is very funny and he's a great guy to hang out with.
Eric Roberts
#8. The problem is, your ego sometimes tells you that you can do many things. But sometimes it's best to stay focused and be honest with yourself.
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#9. And if I look at my icebox, there's no way I'm sitting there looking like Gandhi. I mean, I don't have crickets in there and little green rice. No, I mean it's a pretty liberal icebox. It's all in there.
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#10. 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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#11. Crunches are much more effective than regular sit-ups because they specifically target your upper abdominal muscles rather than your hip muscles. If you're not used to them, they can cause soreness a day or two later, but it's a 'cool' soreness. A badge of honor.
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#12. 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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#13. It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to star in it, when no one knows who they are. The only time it happened that I know of was when Sylvester Stallone did it in 'Rocky.'
Patrick Whitesell
#14. Racing's very much like the world of acting. You have your front runners and you have guys that are there for the long race, and you have other guys that block for other people, that are called supporting and character actors. It's all the same kind of situation.
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#15. Time is truly the great enemy. It's not the great healer, it's the great stealer.
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#16. Movies are a whole different ball-game, now. It's much more of a business - very scientific.
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#17. I thought marriage was tough. Golf's like going over Niagara Falls in a barrel! It's a psychological game that gets into your blood.
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#18. 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.
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#19. That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.
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#20. There might have been a period around 'Tango & Cash' when I was nearly fashionable. My problem is that my weight's always been changing for the movies I'm in.
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#21. 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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#22. That's the hardest thing about doing sequels - you've lost the element of surprise.
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#23. After two terms as California's Governator, Schwarzenegger slipped comfortably back into pictures with 'The Last Stand,' a modern Western, then crammed into the wide screen, as if it were a service elevator, with fellow '80s muscle car Sylvester Stallone in 'Escape Plan.'
Richard Corliss
#24. Theater is like boxing - having the audience ringside. It's instant gratification. Or horrification.
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#25. 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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#26. Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived.
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#27. 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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#28. I have tons of regrets, but I think that's one of the reasons that push people to create things. Out of their angst, their regret, comes the best from artists, painters and writers.
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#29. I realized, the older I get, the more difficult life becomes. It's not easier, it's more difficult.
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#30. Training and working in Philadelphia is a very unusual situation because that city does believe that Rocky is real. No one calls me Sylvester, it's Rocky.
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#31. Until America, door to door, takes every handgun, this is what you're gonna have. It's pathetic. It really is pathetic. It's sad. We're living in the Dark Ages over there.
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#32. I like Stallone, because he writes. He sits down with a blank page and comes up with another Rambo movie. That isn't very easy for anybody. He's made it successful on top of that.
Dolph Lundgren
#33. 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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#34. 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.
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#35. I'm usually taken for a non-intellectual, a person of limited intelligence. I don't know why, but I figure it's because physically I don't look intelligent.
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#36. 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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#37. Don't be gullible, use life before it uses you. Understand there are no free lunches, and for every action you take, there's a reaction.
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#38. 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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#39. 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.
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#40. To know that the odds are so high that only through the perishing of your life will the minions survive, that's love. That's heroism.
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#41. If you're willing to take the humiliation of sticking your head above the crowd, maybe it's, you know, the pleasure will be worth the pain.
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#42. 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.
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#43. 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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#44. I used to tweet, but it's an act of futility. You're not really making any impact, and if you find yourself in a mood when you wanna be a bit controversial and you post something, you suddenly realise, 'Oh my God!' because you've opened yourself up to a bunch of criticism from strangers.
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#45. 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.
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#46. 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.
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#47. 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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#48. 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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#49. 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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#50. If you look at people that have survived crashing in the mountains and lived up in the snow for 40 days - it's possible to do extraordinary feats.
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#51. 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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#52. Sylvester wins, obviously [best actor in a supporting role in 2016]. That's the whole point of this. We're all getting dressed up to go to the Oscars to hear Sylvester Stallone, let no one get this twisted. The academy can't pay for a better moment than this: this is the Oscar's original darling.
Bun B.
#53. 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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#54. I just want to say that, all you do, no matter how bad your diet is, for the first six months or year, I just reduce the amount, even if it's horrible stuff. That you can deal with it.
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#55. The trouble with remakes is that people fall in love with the original. It's like peanut butter. If you try to change the taste of peanut butter, you're in trouble.
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#56. There's no one in the world close to Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is a phenomenon. He's brilliant.
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#58. It Ain't How Hard You Hit ... It's How Hard You Can Get Hit and Keep Moving Forward. It's About How Much You Can Take And Keep Moving Forward!
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#59. 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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#60. 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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#62. I didn't even know how to judge 'Die Hard 1.' It's not anything I know how to judge. I'd never seen an action movie. I'd never seen a Sly Stallone movie or an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie or a Charles Bronson movie. And that is the truth.
Bonnie Bedelia
#63. 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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#64. People assume that 'The Expendables' is old school, but it's only old school because that's the way I know how to make an action film. It's pretty real.
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#65. I'm astounded by people who take eighteen years to write something. That's how long it took that guy to write Madame Bovary, and was that ever on the best-seller list?
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#66. It's funny because when Jason [Statham] was drowning I was filming with an iPhone. It may have been a bit insensitive but I just thought, "you know what, this was a magic moment". And I couldn't help him anyway because I didn't want to drown.
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#67. I was on cruise control from '85 to '95, and it was my fault. There were a lot of self-inflicted wounds, when I was not doing any original material. I wasn't directing. I wasn't writing. That's not who I am.
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#68. 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.
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#69. 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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#70. I was an 80's/90's baby so you went to the movie theater every weekend and there was one on, whether it was Stallone, Van Damme, Seagal or Schwarzenegger himself.
Channing Tatum
#71. 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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#73. Study people's success stories hard. Study their failures even harder.
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#74. 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.
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#75. Boxing is sort of an inevitability. We know they are going to be pounding each other.
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#76. Dreams cost nothing. They are free. The hard part is just keeping them going.
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#77. There's a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone.
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#78. Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that's just the way it is.
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#79. A lot of actors, and artists in general, never feel secure in love. They always feel everything's going to be taken away from them, professionally and personally; they're extremely emotional and volatile.
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#80. In Philadelphia, there's no delineation, they address me as Rocky, for real. They'll say things like: "Rocky, do you like this coat?" Or: "Rock, say hi to my sister." Or: "Yo Rock, I know a great restaurant." There's no Sylvester. Even the Mayor goes: "It's good to have Rocky here today."
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#81. 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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#82. Rocky would definitely run for councilman. Maybe mayor. But these people are actually most effective in the family unit. That's where they shine.
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#83. 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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#84. 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.
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#85. Life is more than sunglasses and hit movies. Reality - that's the main event.
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#86. 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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#87. 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.
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#88. 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.
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#89. 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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#90. 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.
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#91. 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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#92. We're all expendable. We think the world's going to stop when a pope dies, or a king. And then ... life goes on.
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#93. Sometimes when I don't want to cry, I cry. And when I want to I can't. It's subconscious. Like sexual performance.
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#94. 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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#95. People don't realize that when they 'throw out' their back, it's often because of weak abs. These muscles are essential for lower-back strength and good posture.
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#96. You can actually alter a person's perception when they're that young. I mean, it can affect them in a very positive way.
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#97. 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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#98. I know I'm incredibly unpredictable, and that's the only thing I'm sure of.
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#99. The champion's management says let's do this for real, for charity. Rocky says no but decides to be true to himself even though he's going to be berated by everyone. Just to compete, not to win.
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#100. Making a movie is the same as an orchestra; it's moving all the different instruments and the sounds, the kinetic and the auditory and the visual all together. I'm probably the trombone.
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