Top 250 Sylvester Stallone Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I thought marriage was tough. Golf’s like going over Niagara Falls in a barrel! It’s a psychological game that gets into your blood.”

— Sylvester Stallone

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

— Sylvester Stallone

53. “If bad decorating was a hanging offense, there’d be bodies hanging from every tree!”

— Sylvester Stallone

54. “Back there I could fly a gunship, I could drive a tank, I was in charge of million dollar equipment, back here I can’t even hold a job PARKING CARS!”

— Sylvester Stallone

55. “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.”

— Sylvester Stallone

56. “You can actually alter a person’s perception when they’re that young. I mean, it can affect them in a very positive way.”

— Sylvester Stallone

57. “Training and working in Philadelphia is a very unusual situation because that city does believe that Rocky is real. No one calls me Sylvester, it’s Rocky.”

— Sylvester Stallone

58. “I have all kinds of chest injuries; I tore my vein during ‘Rocky II’ and had 60 stitches. If you’ve seen ‘Rocky Balboa,’ you’ll know how bad they look.”

— Sylvester Stallone

59. “In Philadelphia, there’s no delineation, they address me as Rocky, for real. They’ll say things like: “Rocky, do you like this coat?” Or: “Rock, say hi to my sister.” Or: “Yo Rock, I know a great restaurant.” There’s no Sylvester. Even the Mayor goes: “It’s good to have Rocky here today.””

— Sylvester Stallone

60. “I’m always looking for a new challenge. There are a lot of mountains to climb out there. When I run out of mountains, I’ll build a new one.”

— Sylvester Stallone

61. “When you are young, you often think that the world spins around you. You think you can do anything, can take the world on your shoulders.”

— Sylvester Stallone

62. “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.”

— Sylvester Stallone

63. “The phenomenal thing that happened to me is that I was able to create two memorable men: one is the ultimate optimist, Rocky, and then you have Rambo, the ultimate pessimist. You’re going to always be remembered for them, no matter what you do.”

— Sylvester Stallone

64. “I’m a patriot of the heart.”

— Sylvester Stallone

65. “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.”

— Sylvester Stallone

66. “My favorite snack would have to be Fritos, no doubt about it. Fritos and mayonnaise. I know. Really healthy, isn’t it?”

— Sylvester Stallone

67. “The trouble with remakes is that people fall in love with the original. It’s like peanut butter. If you try to change the taste of peanut butter, you’re in trouble.”

— Sylvester Stallone

68. “I abused my body so much throughout my career that I am literally held together by glue. The stuff I took thickens the bones and reinforces the tendons.”

— Sylvester Stallone

69. “I guess the best thing I do of all is ride. Horsemanship, I have a natural flair for it.”

— Sylvester Stallone

70. “The men in Vietnam weren’t allowed to fight the war with any kind of concern to win by the government. It was like a war of attrition.”

— Sylvester Stallone

71. “Rocky would definitely run for councilman. Maybe mayor. But these people are actually most effective in the family unit. That’s where they shine.”

— Sylvester Stallone

72. “You know you’ve been around when they start to remake your own movies when you’re still alive.”

— Sylvester Stallone

73. “Sometimes I write with music on, and if I’m in a good flow, I don’t even hear it.”

— Sylvester Stallone

74. “In fact, every day I’ll read a chapter of some art book. I don’t know why. It’s just a habit.”

— Sylvester Stallone

75. “But it ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward; how much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done! Now, if you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain’t you. You’re better than that!”

— Sylvester Stallone

76. “I love art more than anything in the world except for my family.”

— Sylvester Stallone

77. “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.”

— Sylvester Stallone

78. “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.”

— Sylvester Stallone

79. “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

80. “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.”

— Sylvester Stallone

81. “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.”

— Sylvester Stallone

82. “Certain characters, mostly heroes, have to be the straight silent type; that is part of the make-up.”

— Sylvester Stallone

83. “I have two lovely sons and some good memories, but I’ve had a rather tumultuous personal life. It hasn’t been dull; I’ve been the Hiroshima of love.”

— Sylvester Stallone

84. “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.”

— Sylvester Stallone

85. “Voices are like fingerprints, from Cagney to Bogart. They never lost it. My voice is instrumental in categorizing me.”

— Sylvester Stallone

86. “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.”

— Sylvester Stallone

87. “Action film is really easy to do, you just get in a car and smash through things and it’s called action. The real key is what happens between the action when it’s quiet. Loud is easy. Quiet, real hard.”

— Sylvester Stallone

88. “Movies are a whole different ball-game, now. It’s much more of a business – very scientific.”

— Sylvester Stallone

89. “To know that the odds are so high that only through the perishing of your life will the minions survive, that’s love. That’s heroism.”

— Sylvester Stallone

90. “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.”

— Sylvester Stallone

91. “People asked if I could have played the Terminator. Are you kidding? Not a chance, I never could have played the Terminator.”

— Sylvester Stallone

92. “I just fight in my movies, never in real life.”

— Sylvester Stallone

93. “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.”

— Sylvester Stallone

94. “I would never run for president.”

— Sylvester Stallone

95. “I’ve always boxed a certain way. But with Rocky, the character himself had to be kind of awkward. So I had to learn to fight that way.”

— Sylvester Stallone

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

— Sylvester Stallone

97. “Often people going into directing want to learn as much as they possibly can about “technique.” And I say the hell with that.”

— Sylvester Stallone

98. “To be really artful, though, you have to be subjective and so singular.”

— Sylvester Stallone

99. “I do believe that American should deal from strength.”

— Sylvester Stallone

100. “Usually whenever you’re scared of something, do it. If you’re not afraid of it, don’t do it.”

— Sylvester Stallone