Top 250 Sylvester Stallone Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “If you express yourself too much, you’re considered weak.”

— Sylvester Stallone

152. “You’ve got to show your soul otherwise you’re just a piece of equipment.”

— Sylvester Stallone

153. “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

154. “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.”

— Sylvester Stallone

155. “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

156. “Rambo isn’t violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist.”

— Sylvester Stallone

157. “I’m not a genetically superior person. I built my body.”

— Sylvester Stallone

158. “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

159. “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

160. “I just want to say that, all you do, no matter how bad your diet is, for the first six months or year, I just reduce the amount, even if it’s horrible stuff. That you can deal with it.”

— Sylvester Stallone

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

— Sylvester Stallone

162. “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

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

— Sylvester Stallone

164. “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

165. “That’s what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.”

— Sylvester Stallone

166. “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

167. “With writing, I think you have to be honest with yourself. I have a certain kind of writing; that is, I like to really embellish the human spirit. You have to write about something you have a feel for.”

— Sylvester Stallone

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

— Sylvester Stallone

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

— Sylvester Stallone

170. “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

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

— Sylvester Stallone

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

— Sylvester Stallone

173. “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.”

— Sylvester Stallone

174. “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

175. “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

176. “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

177. “I consider myself something of a raconteur. I have a rather audacious sense of humour.”

— Sylvester Stallone

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

— Sylvester Stallone

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

— Sylvester Stallone

180. “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

181. “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

182. “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

183. “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

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. “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

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

— Sylvester Stallone

187. “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

188. “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

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. “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

192. “It’s great the way the old-time directors used to manipulate the hell out of you. You see someone dying and all of a sudden a ghost would come out and they go walking hand in hand up the stairway.”

— Sylvester Stallone

193. “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

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

— Sylvester Stallone

195. “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

196. “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

197. “I think people of all occupations, whether it’s the camera – puller or the man who’s doing the catering, they can identify with Rambo’s frustrations, with the veteran’s frustrations.”

— Sylvester Stallone

198. “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

199. “In a contest between me and a bulldog, you would say the bulldog is cuter.”

— Sylvester Stallone

200. “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