I really am a manifestation of my own fantasy.
SYLVESTER STALLONEI really am a manifestation of my own fantasy.
SYLVESTER STALLONEI’m perceived to be this solitary character, but nothing could be further from the truth.
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 STALLONEWhen you find the right components in your life, the right people, that gel with you, then you feel as though you’re invincible. It may be a fallacy, but you at least feel as though you can take all that life has to dish out.
SYLVESTER STALLONEI love being verbal in films.
SYLVESTER STALLONEI 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.
SYLVESTER STALLONEPeople think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in sight.
SYLVESTER STALLONEI was an insecure kid. Once I saw ‘Hercules’ with Steve Reeves, it completely changed my life. If I had never gone to that film, I wouldn’t be here today.
SYLVESTER STALLONEI’d rather do something I love badly than to feel bad about not doing something I love.
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 STALLONEIf you express yourself too much, you’re considered weak.
SYLVESTER STALLONEAt the end of the day, ‘Rocky’ is a love story, and he could never have reached the final bell without Adrian.
SYLVESTER STALLONETheater is like boxing – having the audience ringside. It’s instant gratification. Or horrification.
SYLVESTER STALLONEA lot of guys don’t want to admit that they have a propensity for generosity and for violence.
SYLVESTER STALLONEI respect a woman too much to marry her.
SYLVESTER STALLONEWhen I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn’t expect me in comedies or musicals.
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