Quotes by Sylvester Stallone

About Sylvester Stallone:

Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone is an American actor, screenwriter and film director. Stallone is well known for his Hollywood action roles. Two notable characters he has portrayed are the boxer Rocky Balboa, the title character of the Rocky series from 1976 to 2008 and soldier John Rambo from the Rambo saga, which ran from 1982 to 2008. He wrote every episode of the two eponymous franchises, and directed some of their installments as well.
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There'll never be a 'Rocky IV.' You gotta call a halt.

Sylvester Stallone

Quite often in acting, you have to play a certain part; you cannot speak as much as you want to speak.

Sylvester Stallone

The world will never come together and say, 'We are one.'

Sylvester Stallone

When a parent loses a child, there is no greater pain.

Sylvester Stallone

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.

Sylvester Stallone

When I'm on a location, I pick a restaurant that's close and private and eat all my meals there.

Sylvester Stallone

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.

Sylvester Stallone

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.

Sylvester Stallone

Your brain is triggered to produce.

Sylvester Stallone

I'm a patriot of the heart.

Sylvester Stallone

You have to be really loyal to the people that supported you when you were coming up.

Sylvester Stallone

Certain characters, mostly heroes, have to be the straight silent type; that is part of the make-up.

Sylvester Stallone

I think I'm a much better painter than an actor.

Sylvester Stallone

Testosterone to me is so important for a sense of well-being when you get older.

Sylvester Stallone

Some actors are brilliant character guys. They submerge.

Sylvester Stallone

Today's action hero, his skills are through technology. He can fly, he can throw a bolt of lightning, he can freeze people.

Sylvester Stallone

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.

Sylvester Stallone

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.

Sylvester Stallone

I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.

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.

Sylvester Stallone

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.

Sylvester Stallone

Author Bio

  • NameSylvester Stallone
  • DescriptionAmerican actor, screenwriter, and film director
  • AliasesSylvester Gardenzio Stallone; Sly Stallone; Stallone; Sly
  • BornJuly 6, 1947
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Actor; Film Director; Screenwriter; Film Producer; Writer; Actor
  • AwardsOfficier Des Arts Et Des Lettres?