Sylvester Stallone Quotes

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Sylvester Stallone

Profession : Actor

Birth : July 6, 1946

When a parent loses a child, there is no greater pain.

Sylvester Stallone

In a contest between me and a bulldog, you would say the bulldog is cuter.

Sylvester Stallone

I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.

Sylvester Stallone

Your brain is triggered to produce.

Sylvester Stallone

I 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 Stallone

I try to combine in my paintings cinematic feeling, emotional feeling, and sometimes actually writing on the page to combine all the different elements of communication.

Sylvester Stallone

When I'm doing a movie, I eat the same thing every day. For lunch, it's tuna salad or chicken salad and cole slaw. That's it. For dinner it's either veal and rice, fish and rice or steak and rice. It gets boring; boy, does it get boring.

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Nothing's harder than writing. There's no comparison. With directing, you can bounce a lot of ideas around. There's tremendous support - you've got editors and sound mixers. With writing, it's all you, and it's just crippling when people tear up your pages.

Sylvester Stallone

I've made a lot of career mistakes. A lot. Actually, a lot of personal ones, too.

Sylvester Stallone

People don't realize that when they 'throw out' their back, it's often because of weak abs. These muscles are essential for lower-back strength and good posture.

Sylvester Stallone

On the sequel, you've lost the element of surprise. Usually, on the first one you may not go very, very deep into character; the second one you start to explore the character a bit more.

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Now it really is, believe it or not, 90% of the films are green lit, not by the studio heads, but by the marketing department.

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Clothing is the first step to building a character.

Sylvester Stallone

When I saw 'Hercules,' my mind just exploded because I was extremely thin; I was insecure. I literally ran out of the theatre and started lifting things, anything I could think of - milk crates. I'm still lifting things. It changed my life.

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I know I can't play funny roles in movies. I tried, and it didn't work.

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I believe an artist dies twice. The first time, it's just terrible - I've been there when the phone isn't ringing for years.

Sylvester Stallone

For every guy, there is an opportunity to be a lot better than he thought he could be. We can't all be the star of the team, but we can be a star in our life. That's where you set your goal.

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There'll never be a 'Rocky IV.' You gotta call a halt.

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