Top 250 Sylvester Stallone Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “Age is a state of old mind. It gets to a point where if you get old enough, you forget how old you are, and that’s the best thing. And then you walk around kind of like in a fog.”

— Sylvester Stallone

152. “At the very end, the one person who Rambo should kill, he doesn’t kill. He lets it live. Because you can’t kill that kind of hypocritical bureaucracy. It goes on forever.”

— Sylvester Stallone

153. “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.”

— Sylvester Stallone

154. “I think kids growing up, if they were picked on and feeling inferior at 12, they’re going to feel that way at 72. You just deal with it better. I’m serious.”

— Sylvester Stallone

155. “I think there’s something about being a neophyte that’s refreshing and hard to duplicate; it brings about real innovation. Innovation usually comes about through blind ignorance.”

— Sylvester Stallone

156. “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.”

— Sylvester Stallone

157. “Sometimes when I don’t want to cry, I cry. And when I want to I can’t. It’s subconscious. Like sexual performance.”

— Sylvester Stallone

158. “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.”

— Sylvester Stallone

159. “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.”

— Sylvester Stallone

160. “I’m astounded by people who take eighteen years to write something. That’s how long it took that guy to write Madame Bovary, and was that ever on the best-seller list?”

— Sylvester Stallone

161. “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.”

— Sylvester Stallone

162. “If you express yourself too much, you’re considered weak.”

— Sylvester Stallone

163. “The champion’s management says let’s do this for real, for charity. Rocky says no but decides to be true to himself even though he’s going to be berated by everyone. Just to compete, not to win.”

— Sylvester Stallone

164. “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.”

— Sylvester Stallone

165. “I respect a woman too much to marry her.”

— Sylvester Stallone

166. “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.”

— Sylvester Stallone

167. “A lot of women read male magazines. Of course, a lot of guys read female magazines, but they’ve got another issue to deal with. But a lot of women read men’s magazines and think, ‘Oh, this is what these guys are thinking? Studying up on the enemy here.’”

— Sylvester Stallone

168. “I wanted to show I had balls at age 60. Just because society says I’m old, doesn’t mean that I am. I’m pursuing happiness, even if it makes the people around me unhappy.”

— Sylvester Stallone

169. “Rocky is a very predictable movie. The ending is a foregone conclusion.”

— Sylvester Stallone

170. “Making a movie is the same as an orchestra; it’s moving all the different instruments and the sounds, the kinetic and the auditory and the visual all together. I’m probably the trombone.”

— Sylvester Stallone

171. “I’m a big believer that, in life, we can’t succeed in everything. Most times, we lose.”

— Sylvester Stallone

172. “I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager.”

— Sylvester Stallone

173. “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.”

— Sylvester Stallone

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

— Sylvester Stallone

175. “Polo is like tennis – you literally have to live it.”

— Sylvester Stallone

176. “When I was cognizant of the war, I was very angry at the street-corner liberals who were trying to defame the footsoldier. Because there was a man who had no choice. He was a cog in the wheel, just trying to survive. I was always aware of that.”

— Sylvester Stallone

177. “I’m not just painting for painting’s sake. I want to be truthful.”

— Sylvester Stallone

178. “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.”

— Sylvester Stallone

179. “People assume that ‘The Expendables’ is old school, but it’s only old school because that’s the way I know how to make an action film. It’s pretty real.”

— Sylvester Stallone

180. “I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.”

— Sylvester Stallone

181. “Painting is as close as a person can get to actually capturing the heat of the moment.”

— Sylvester Stallone

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

— Sylvester Stallone

183. “I’d live in a museum if I could. I used to spend hours and hours in the Museum of Modern Art.”

— Sylvester Stallone

184. “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.”

— Sylvester Stallone

185. “I don’t fall into the physical manifestation of a man of letters. So I guess people assume the scripts are delivered to me under the door.”

— Sylvester Stallone

186. “I’ve been involved in something which was chaotic and insane. All I can say now is that I am, and intend to stay, a single man.”

— Sylvester Stallone

187. “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.”

— Sylvester Stallone

188. “I try to eliminate as much dialogue as possible, and I guess Rambo is my really best experiment with how to eliminate dialogue.”

— Sylvester Stallone

189. “When people meet me, they’re often surprised – I talk a great deal.”

— Sylvester Stallone

190. “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.”

— Sylvester Stallone

191. “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.”

— Sylvester Stallone

192. “Testosterone to me is so important for a sense of well-being when you get older.”

— Sylvester Stallone

193. “Today’s action hero, his skills are through technology. He can fly, he can throw a bolt of lightning, he can freeze people.”

— Sylvester Stallone

194. “And if I look at my icebox, there’s no way I’m sitting there looking like Gandhi. I mean, I don’t have crickets in there and little green rice. No, I mean it’s a pretty liberal icebox. It’s all in there.”

— Sylvester Stallone

195. “I wanted to show I had balls at age 60.”

— Sylvester Stallone

196. “I love being so tight on people in close-ups that the veins in their eyes look like the Mississippi River.”

— Sylvester Stallone

197. “The one thing in my films, I only kill people who need to be killed, or killers killing killers. And I believe that the violence is very justifiable.”

— Sylvester Stallone

198. “I used to tweet, but it’s an act of futility. You’re not really making any impact, and if you find yourself in a mood when you wanna be a bit controversial and you post something, you suddenly realise, ‘Oh my God!’ because you’ve opened yourself up to a bunch of criticism from strangers.”

— Sylvester Stallone

199. “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.”

— Sylvester Stallone

200. “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.”

— Sylvester Stallone