Sylvester Stallone
People asked if I could have played the Terminator. Are you kidding? Not a chance, I never could have played the Terminator.Collection: Chance
Every morning, I crawl out of bed. I sit there and think, 'Do I really need this?' And I drag myself to the gym in my garage. It's not fun. I hate it. I work out alone. Weights.Collection: Alone
It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.Collection: Knowledge
Life is more than sunglasses and hit movies. Reality - that's the main event.Collection: Movies
I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.Collection: Peace
I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.Collection: Power
When I was a kid, my mother used to feed me mashed-potato sandwiches, brussel sprout sandwiches; my brain cells were starving from lack of food. I'll eat anything. I'll eat dirt.Collection: Food
Movies are the work of a collective conscious. It takes 500-800 people on a movie to complete a vision.Collection: Movies
I want to turn my attention to movies about love relationships. Exploring the female psyche - there ought to be some interesting discoveries there. Love stories. If you do it right, people want to hear romantic dialog.Collection: Romantic
Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.Collection: Romantic
The day I can't walk is the day I quit movies.Collection: Movies
There aren't a lot of opportunities for that rite of passage that makes you a man. War is one of them, and violent sports are another.Collection: War
I know I can't play funny roles in movies. I tried, and it didn't work.Collection: Funny
I just fight in my movies, never in real life.Collection: Movies
The action movies changed radically when it became possible to Velcro your muscles on. It was the beginning of a new era. The visual took over. The special effects became more important than the single person. That was the beginning of the end.Collection: Movies
There might have been a period around 'Tango & Cash' when I was nearly fashionable. My problem is that my weight's always been changing for the movies I'm in.Collection: Movies
You know you've been around when they start to remake your own movies when you're still alive.Collection: Movies
I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.Collection: Future
There's a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone.Collection: Alone
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.Collection: Movies
Just because society says I'm old doesn't mean I am.Collection: Society
I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.Collection: Movies
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.Collection: Strength
Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.Collection: Failure
Years ago I was diagnosed with a condition, and my doctors prescribed human growth hormone and testosterone for its treatment. Under medical supervision, I have continued to use both medications.Collection: Medical
People that spend time in a foxhole - they're never going to find that relationship anywhere else again... Everything else pales next to that. When you think about the Second World War vets - more than even the Vietnam vets - there's a brotherhood.Collection: Relationship
I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it, then that's a noble project.Collection: Family
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.Collection: Respect
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.Collection: Communication
Crunches are much more effective than regular sit-ups because they specifically target your upper abdominal muscles rather than your hip muscles. If you're not used to them, they can cause soreness a day or two later, but it's a 'cool' soreness. A badge of honor.Collection: Cool
Whenever I don't get injured, the film is a dud. I didn't bleed on 'Rhinestone.' I didn't bleed on 'Stop! Or My Mom will Shoot.'Collection: Mom
In the movies, I kill guys with an axe. In real life, I can't control a nine-year-old girl.Collection: Movies
I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.Collection: Failure
I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.Collection: Success
A lot of guys have muscles. A lot of strong men in this world. I think it's important to show that even under all this strength there's a fragile side, a side that can be affected.Collection: Strength
It took me a long time to be convinced that marriage was right for me because I've come from a long line of broken marriages. My parents divorced, and I had two broken marriages myself.Collection: Marriage
I have a fear of heights that borders on mania.Collection: Fear
When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.Collection: Teacher
Today's action hero, his skills are through technology. He can fly, he can throw a bolt of lightning, he can freeze people.Collection: Technology
I've made a lot of career mistakes. A lot. Actually, a lot of personal ones, too.
Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that's just the way it is.
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've kind of fashioned my life after a Slinky. Bend me in a million shapes, and eventually I'll spring back to what I originally was.
The biggest and most interesting crisis in the world is the human crisis, and it never gets boring. It goes back to Shakespeare. You don't need a gimmick; it's just man against man and their intolerance of each other.
Voices are like fingerprints, from Cagney to Bogart. They never lost it. My voice is instrumental in categorizing me.
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.
All young men want to prove themselves.
The world will never come together and say, 'We are one.'
I respect a woman too much to marry her.
I love being verbal in films.