“If you express yourself too much, you’re considered weak.”

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.

Time is truly the great enemy. It’s not the great healer, it’s the great stealer.

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

I love being verbal in films.

Rambo isn’t violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist.

Like I said, I’ve got too much respect for women to marry them, but that doesn’t mean you can’t support them emotionally and financially.

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.

You’ve got to show your soul otherwise you’re just a piece of equipment.

That’s what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.

People think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in sight.

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.

When life hits you pretty hard, you can go into a dark corner.

I really am a manifestation of my own fantasy.

I’m a patriot of the heart.

Every time I’ve failed, people had me out for the count, but I always come back.

Movies are a whole different ball-game, now. It’s much more of a business – very scientific.

Now this connection or adaption of all created things with each, and of each with all the rest, means that each simple substance has relations which express all the others, and that consequently it is a perpetual living mirror of the universe.

A fever is an expression of inner rage.

Stop the mental chatter about what’s wrong and what’s not complete. There is a presence of Love that is seeking to express itself through you.

I think people who come into my home feel comfortable and welcome and loved. And the biggest thing in my living room (the fireplace) is in and of itself an expression of love.

I think when I started acting it was the first time I got the freedom of expression.

I discover vision, not as a ‘thinking about seeing,’ to use Descartes expression, but as a gaze at grips with a visible world, and that is why for me there can be another’s gaze.

Life itself is but the expression of a sum of phenomena, each of which follows the ordinary physical and chemical laws.

If I had to define life in a single phrase, I should clearly express my thought of throwing into relief one characteristic which, in my opinion, sharply differentiates biological science. I should say: life is creation.