Sylvester Stallone Quotes

• I was on cruise control from ’85 to ’95, and it was my fault. There were a lot of self-inflicted wounds, when I was not doing any original material. I wasn’t directing. I wasn’t writing. That’s not who I am.

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• I was an ambitious child and I tended to be scatterbrained. If I was at school and saw a bird outside the window I wanted to follow it. I was adventurous.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I have tons of regrets, but I think that’s one of the reasons that push people to create things. Out of their angst, their regret, comes the best from artists, painters and writers.

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• A lot of actors, and artists in general, never feel secure in love. They always feel everything’s going to be taken away from them, professionally and personally; they’re extremely emotional and volatile.

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

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• When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn’t expect me in comedies or musicals.

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• When you’re an actor, you’re a slave to other people’s visions.

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

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

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• I’m pretty spiritual; I believe a lot in the spirit of man.

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• I’m not right wing, I’m not left wing. I love my country.

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• I think audiences have hit the wall with CGI and special effects. They have seen so many over-the-top events that they can’t suspend disbelief.

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• I loved ‘Rocky’ and ‘Rambo’, and am very proud of them.

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• Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that’s just the way it is.

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• There’s no one in the world close to Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is a phenomenon. He’s brilliant. Just because his physique belies that, don’t underestimate him.

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• If you don’t have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life.

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Sylvester Stallone (61)

Birth:	6th July, 1946
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Director, Filmmaker, Producer, Screenwriter, Television Producer

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