Best 251 quotes of Sylvester Stallone on MyQuotes

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.

Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that's just the way it is.

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.

All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves.

All young men want to prove themselves.

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.

A lot of guys don't want to admit that they have a propensity for generosity and for violence.

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.

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.

Art is the ability to communicate through an intermediary and to convey one's feelings through an isolated object. It's inspiration and incubation. Putting my subjective feelings into an objective form and then on to you for a subjective interpretation.

Artists die twice. First creatively. Then physically. The second one is the easiest.

At the end of the day, 'Rocky' is a love story, and he could never have reached the final bell without Adrian.

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.

Back there I could fly a gunship, I could drive a tank, I was in charge of million dollar equipment, back here I can't even hold a job PARKING CARS!

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

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.

Boxing is sort of an inevitability. We know they are going to be pounding each other.

Boxing is the only sport where you have the audience coming right up to you and saying, "You Stink." And you got to deal with that. It's like being in front of the lions.

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

Characters I've played, they used to impact my paintings, like 80 percent of the time, and especially when I was doing an action film.

Clichés are what good writing is all about. Because our lives are basically clichés.

Clothing is the first step to building a character.

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.

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.

Don't discuss your dreams. Pursue them!

Early on everyone should do, every time they do a big film, they should do a little film. It really does keep you grounded.

Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.

Eventually writing became more interesting to me than acting.

Everybody has anger or regret in them one way or another. They all try different things to get it out. Some people go to psychiatrists. Some paint pictures. Some people talk it out.

Every generation has to find their own heroes.

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.

Everyone has this conjecture that action films are somewhat less prestigious than dramatic films. Nothing could be further from the truth. I've done them both and this is hard and dangerous.

Every rep I did on chin-ups, on squats with 500 pounds, I never said, to myself, 'Oh, my God, another rep.' I said, 'Yes, another rep, because that will make my dream turn into a reality.'

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.

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.

Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.

I abused my body so much throughout my career that I am literally held together by glue. The stuff I took thickens the bones and reinforces the tendons.

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

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

I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.

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.

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'd live in a museum if I could. I used to spend hours and hours in the Museum of Modern Art.

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.

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

I feel that America is like a child that grew up so strong and so fast and so tall that it became self-conscious about its size and started to stoop over so as not to offend anyone.

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.

If I just know in my gut that a film is going to work, I'll fight to the death over it, and I convince myself. When a movie is purely a money job, the film doesn't have the same sort of intensity, and the audience almost senses it, at least that's the way I perceive it. So, yeah, the idea is to do something that you truly, truly believe in.

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.

If you express yourself too much, you're considered weak.