Sylvester Stallone
Consider the source...Don't be a fool by listening to a fool.Collection: Listening
The problem is, your ego sometimes tells you that you can do many things. But sometimes it's best to stay focused and be honest with yourself.Collection: Ego
Now if you know what you're worth. Then go out and get what you're worth.Collection: Pointing Fingers
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.Collection: Children
I have tremendous respect for fighters and I always tell people that boxing in movies is one thing but when you get into the ring for real, even the worst heavyweight in the world is going to murder you. You've just got to appreciate the pain and the suffering and the glory and skill that goes into what they do. That's why I love the sport so much.Collection: Sports
Your spiritual sense will make you either a winner or a loser.Collection: Spiritual
We do two things in life: We race the clock and everything is a struggle. One way or not, it's a metaphorical battle all of the time.Collection: Struggle
Plan B. You've always got to have a Plan B.Collection: Decision
If you look back at life, I bet you will regret about 80% of your actions. But life consists of all mistakes.Collection: Regret
The church is the gym of the soul.Collection: Inspirational
The way to be successful in Hollywood is to be as obnoxious as the next guy.Collection: Successful
Without the church it's like having a boat without the rudder. You think you can do it on your own and this may sound pedestrian or trite but I'll equate it to this: all my life I've been involved with exercise but no matter how much - and I know a great deal about the body - you need help. You need a trainer. You need to go to a gym and you need to have the expertise and the guidance of someone else. You cannot train yourself. I feel the same way about Christianity and what the church is. The church is the gym of the soul.Collection: Exercise
You have to grab life by the throat and squeeze before it grabs you by your neck and breaks it. Own your destiny.Collection: Destiny
I thought I had reached a point in life where everything would be smooth. But it is not. It just gets more jagged and pitted and filled with turns that take you into the dark recesses of your mind. It never seems to get easy.Collection: Dark
If I just know in my gut that a film is going to work, I'll fight to the death over it, and I convince myself. When a movie is purely a money job, the film doesn't have the same sort of intensity, and the audience almost senses it, at least that's the way I perceive it. So, yeah, the idea is to do something that you truly, truly believe in.Collection: Believe
Without love, loyalty, desires, passion, courage, dignities, faith, beliefs and all the other ingredients that go into making the human soul something so elevated that only God knows its limits, we are only shells bobbing aimlessly in a calm sea of mediocrity. ...And if you can figure that out, please write and explain it to me because you're a better man than I am.Collection: Loyalty
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.Collection: Communication
Movies are a collective art. Art by proxy.Collection: Art
Until America, door to door, takes every handgun, this is what you're gonna have. It's pathetic. It really is pathetic. It's sad. We're living in the Dark Ages over there.Collection: Dark
The only thing that I haven't done is perform brain surgery on myself. I've been very, very lucky. I've spared Shakespeare undue stress by not doing that.Collection: Stress
I wish my daughters would box. I'm so worried about the guys coming up to them. I would love them to be able to smack a guy right off a bar stool.Collection: Daughter
Children are the first thing I see in the morning and the last thing I see at night. It hurts me to be away from them for a few hours. It really does. I love them and they're girls, so they know how to push my buttons. But I've learned a lot and I have to thank my wife for that.Collection: Girl
When crossing someone's borders you have to be prepared to engage in a war that is far more brutal than if it were to take place on neutral territory.Collection: War
Clichés are what good writing is all about. Because our lives are basically clichés.Collection: Writing
You have to have an almost boundless reservoir of energy and interest to enter politics because quite often it's thankless and fruitless and you can't accomplish much.Collection: Energy
That's the hardest thing about doing sequels - you've lost the element of surprise.Collection: Elements
I've done my "mind over matter" movies, and I think probably that people aren't really interested in seeing me do that anymore. I think I'm kind of past my prime to do dramatic films. I think it'd become kind of like almost a pathetic cry out to be recognized as a serious drama actor.Collection: Drama
If I'd succeeded right away at acting I wouldn't have sought out writing.Collection: Writing
I do believe that American should deal from strength.Collection: Believe
You cannot train yourself. I feel the same way about Christianity and about what the church is: The church is the gym of the soul.Collection: Soul
The character of Rocky was built on the idea that he was chosen to do something. That's why the first image in Rocky is the picture of Christ.Collection: Character
Polo is like tennis - you literally have to live it.Collection: Tennis
Rocky would definitely run for councilman. Maybe mayor. But these people are actually most effective in the family unit. That's where they shine.Collection: Running
I think I'd like to be remembered as someone who beat the odds through just plain determination. ... that I persevered. Because I think that being somewhat of a pest to life, constantly plaguing and pursuing, will bring results.Collection: Determination
I think everyone has questions in their mind. Did they do their very best?Collection: Thinking
Lighting can bring out certain contours in the body, in the face, in the eyes, that otherwise flat lighting couldn't.Collection: Eye
We follow a certain pattern, a maze, if you will, every day, tracing our steps into certain districts and neighborhoods and back home. So it's easy for people to relate to clichés. That's why comedy routines are based on mutual experiences of clichés.Collection: Home
Rocky is a very predictable movie. The ending is a foregone conclusion.Collection: Conclusion
Art is the ability to communicate through an intermediary and to convey one's feelings through an isolated object. It's inspiration and incubation. Putting my subjective feelings into an objective form and then on to you for a subjective interpretation.Collection: Art
In this day and age, if you're aspiring to be an actor, and you're putting all your eggs in one basket, you could be disappointed. I started out as an actor, but I forced myself to be a writer, even though I wasn't very good at it and had never written. I don't think I ever passed an English course in my life. My first 8 to 10 scripts were pretty horrendous, but I stayed at it until I eventually found a voice and a subject that people were interested in. So, I recommend that you go out and try to be as versatile as possible: writer, actor, producer and especially director.Collection: Thinking
I never started out to be an action actor. I was an ensemble actor.Collection: Ensemble
Once I stopped trying to always do everything my way, and once I asked for God's help, things have truly gone a different direction.Collection: Trying
I really have very little aspirations about acting because I think that probably the best things have come and gone. I would like to focus on writing and directing. I love writing and directing even though writing can be incredibly painful and lonely. I get great satisfaction from doing it.Collection: Lonely
I love being so tight on people in close-ups that the veins in their eyes look like the Mississippi River.Collection: Eye
I wanted to show I had balls at age 60.Collection: Age
I would never run for president.Collection: Running
When you're younger you just want to go out and make your mark in the world and doing that, quite often, the people that you love the most and the people you should be closest to suffer from estrangement. I'd be gone nine months a year, so how do you know anyone? When you come home you are a stranger.Collection: Home
I think there's a kind of built-in arrogance to anyone who considers themself an artist. They want to feel as though like they can run the whole spectrum. "I can do it all. I can do minimalism, and I can do classical art." Well, that's not true.Collection: Running
I think I came along at an opportune time. I don't know if that would happen anymore, because the whole way of doing business in Hollywood has changed.Collection: Thinking