Sylvester Stallone Quotes

People think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in sight.

I learned the real meaning of love. Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people, you can set your watch by them. And that’s love, even if it doesn’t seem very exciting.

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

I’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.

For ‘Rocky II,’ I got a torn pectoral muscle, I got all beat up inside, I had to have an operation to splice things back together.

I wish I had thought of Velcro muscles myself. I didn’t have to go to the gym for all those years, all the hours wedded to the iron game, as we call it.

I’m not a genetically superior person. I built my body.

I made some truly awful movies. ‘Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot’ was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes.

I know I’m incredibly unpredictable, and that’s the only thing I’m sure of.

If you look at people that have survived crashing in the mountains and lived up in the snow for 40 days – it’s possible to do extraordinary feats.

My life has always been chaotic. From the time I got dressed in the back of a deflated, flat-tired, fish-smelling station wagon for Rocky. It’s always been do it yourself, kind of like paper-clip it together.

We’re all expendable. We think the world’s going to stop when a pope dies, or a king. And then… life goes on.

All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves.

You have to be really loyal to the people that supported you when you were coming up.