The more I go to church and the more I turn myself over to the process of believing in Jesus and listening to His Word and having Him guide my hand, I feel as though the pressure is off me now.
SYLVESTER STALLONEThe more I go to church and the more I turn myself over to the process of believing in Jesus and listening to His Word and having Him guide my hand, I feel as though the pressure is off me now.
SYLVESTER STALLONEI’m perceived to be this solitary character, but nothing could be further from the truth.
SYLVESTER STALLONEWhen 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 STALLONEI 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.
SYLVESTER STALLONEBoxing is a great exercise as long as you can yell “cut” whenever you want to.
SYLVESTER STALLONEI think I’m a much better painter than an actor.
SYLVESTER STALLONEThere’s a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone.
SYLVESTER STALLONEWhen I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.
SYLVESTER STALLONEI am not the richest, smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and going and going.
SYLVESTER STALLONEI realized, the older I get, the more difficult life becomes. It’s not easier, it’s more difficult.
SYLVESTER STALLONEWhen you’re scared, when you’re hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you’re going to see what you’re really made of.
SYLVESTER STALLONEI’m not a genetically superior person. I built my body.
SYLVESTER STALLONEI 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 STALLONEThrough failure, I found different ways to reverse my problems and get into the mainstream of Hollywood.
SYLVESTER STALLONEThe only thing that I haven’t done is perform brain surgery on myself. I’ve been very, very lucky. I’ve spared Shakespeare undue stress by not doing that.
SYLVESTER STALLONEI’m not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren’t straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.
SYLVESTER STALLONE