Suddenly I’ve got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.
SYLVESTER STALLONENo one will hit you harder than life itself. It doesn’t matter how hard you hit back. It’s about how much you can take, and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward. That’s how you win.
More Sylvester Stallone Quotes
-
-
I’d rather do something I love badly than to feel bad about not doing something I love.
SYLVESTER STALLONE -
With a lot of comedians, one of their major attributes is that they look comedic, with a certain hangdog or manic expression. I look like the neighborhood bully. That doesn’t elicit laughter.
SYLVESTER STALLONE -
Remember the mind is your best muscle, BIG ARMS can move rocks, but BIG WORDS can move mountains. Ride the brain train for success.
SYLVESTER STALLONE -
I really am a manifestation of my own fantasy.
SYLVESTER STALLONE -
I am not the richest, smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and going and going.
SYLVESTER STALLONE -
You are what you leave behind.
SYLVESTER STALLONE -
I respect a woman too much to marry her.
SYLVESTER STALLONE -
To me, the most perfect screenplay ever written will be one word, when you finally reduce it down to that. Until then, writing will be an imperfect form of communication.
SYLVESTER STALLONE -
To know that the odds are so high that only through the perishing of your life will the minions survive, that’s love. That’s heroism.
SYLVESTER STALLONE -
Making a movie is the same as an orchestra; it’s moving all the different instruments and the sounds, the kinetic and the auditory and the visual all together. I’m probably the trombone.
SYLVESTER STALLONE -
I think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains do become valleys after a while if you keep on walking.
SYLVESTER STALLONE -
Testosterone to me is so important for a sense of well-being when you get older.
SYLVESTER STALLONE -
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.
SYLVESTER STALLONE -
If you don’t have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life.
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 -
Most action is based on redemption and revenge, and that’s a formula. Moby Dick was formula. It’s how you get to the conclusion that makes it interesting.
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 -
I watch a lot of news, and I watch musical shows because I think the music of the young people is really their news reports. They let you know how their country is going through their eyes, and about their experiences in the everyday shock of growing up.
SYLVESTER STALLONE -
If you look back at life, I bet you will regret about 80% of your actions. But life consists of all mistakes.
SYLVESTER STALLONE -
I’m perceived to be this solitary character, but nothing could be further from the truth.
SYLVESTER STALLONE -
The church is the gym of the soul.
SYLVESTER STALLONE -
Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but the loyalty never fades.
SYLVESTER STALLONE -
Real love is when you become selfless and you are more concerned about your mate’s or children’s egos than your own. You’re now a giver instead of a taker.
SYLVESTER STALLONE -
Rocky’ represents the optimistic side of life, and ‘Rambo’ represents purgatory.
SYLVESTER STALLONE -
Every time I’ve failed, people had me out for the count, but I always come back.
SYLVESTER STALLONE -
When you’re an actor, you’re a slave to other people’s visions.
SYLVESTER STALLONE