Sylvester Stallone Quotes

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Sylvester Stallone

Profession : Actor

Birth : July 6, 1946

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

Sylvester Stallone

The body needs to rest. It needs a lot less exercise than you think.

Sylvester Stallone

Usually whenever you're scared of something, do it. If you're not afraid of it, don't do it.

Sylvester Stallone

I know people get upset and go, 'They're going to take away the assault weapon'. But who needs an assault weapon? Like, really, unless you're carrying out an assault.

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 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 Stallone

I used to tweet, but it's an act of futility. You're not really making any impact, and if you find yourself in a mood when you wanna be a bit controversial and you post something, you suddenly realise, 'Oh my God!' because you've opened yourself up to a bunch of criticism from strangers.

Sylvester Stallone

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

Sylvester Stallone

I respect a woman too much to marry her.

Sylvester Stallone

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

Sylvester Stallone

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.

Sylvester Stallone

I never quite understood these actors - though I envy them sometimes - who can lie out for a year or two. I feel as though time is a real pressing issue, and I want to get as much work done in the time that I have left.

Sylvester Stallone

I think everyone has a certain kind of formula in their life. When you deviate from that formula, you're going to fail big or you're gonna win big.

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

I love being verbal in films.

Sylvester Stallone

I have two lovely sons and some good memories, but I've had a rather tumultuous personal life. It hasn't been dull; I've been the Hiroshima of love.

Sylvester Stallone

I'm a patriot of the heart.

Sylvester Stallone

What I'm trying to do now in my life - not just with the building, but with everything - is to construct things that will have enduring qualities, and won't just be ephemeral flashes in the pan.

Sylvester Stallone

When you're on top and you lead the parade, everyone's there throwing lilies and lilac water on your head. But when those parades have gone by and there's a storm in your heart, there are very few people that are going to sit there and listen to you bemoan life.

Sylvester Stallone

I'm more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time.

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