Top 250 Sylvester Stallone Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “Testosterone to me is so important for a sense of well-being when you get older.”

— Sylvester Stallone

202. “When I tried to branch out into comedy, I didn’t do very well at it, so I went back to doing what I do naturally well, or what the audience expects from me – action pictures.”

— Sylvester Stallone

203. “A lot of guys don’t want to admit that they have a propensity for generosity and for violence.”

— Sylvester Stallone

204. “Early on everyone should do, every time they do a big film, they should do a little film. It really does keep you grounded.”

— Sylvester Stallone

205. “I have a fear of heights that borders on mania.”

— Sylvester Stallone

206. “Theater is like boxing – having the audience ringside. It’s instant gratification. Or horrification.”

— Sylvester Stallone

207. “Whenever I don’t get injured, the film is a dud. I didn’t bleed on ‘Rhinestone.’ I didn’t bleed on ‘Stop! Or My Mom will Shoot.’”

— Sylvester Stallone

208. “Every generation, including mine, has to find their own heroes.”

— Sylvester Stallone

209. “If you’re willing to take the humiliation of sticking your head above the crowd, maybe it’s, you know, the pleasure will be worth the pain.”

— Sylvester Stallone

210. “When you’re on top and you lead the parade, everyone’s there throwing lilies and lilac water on your head. But when those parades have gone by and there’s a storm in your heart, there are very few people that are going to sit there and listen to you bemoan life.”

— Sylvester Stallone

211. “I believe an artist dies twice. The first time, it’s just terrible – I’ve been there when the phone isn’t ringing for years.”

— Sylvester Stallone

212. “I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I’ve just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it’s not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.”

— Sylvester Stallone

213. “My life has always been chaotic. 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.”

— Sylvester Stallone

214. “That’s the hardest thing about doing sequels – you’ve lost the element of surprise.”

— Sylvester Stallone

215. “I try to tell people that just because you’re buff and cut doesn’t mean you’re healthy.”

— Sylvester Stallone

216. “When you’re an actor, you’re a slave to other people’s visions.”

— Sylvester Stallone

217. “When I saw ‘Hercules,’ my mind just exploded because I was extremely thin; I was insecure. I literally ran out of the theatre and started lifting things, anything I could think of – milk crates. I’m still lifting things. It changed my life.”

— Sylvester Stallone

218. “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.”

— Sylvester Stallone

219. “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.”

— Sylvester Stallone

220. “Boxing is the only sport where you have the audience coming right up to you and saying, “You Stink.” And you got to deal with that. It’s like being in front of the lions.”

— Sylvester Stallone

221. “Good action films – not crap, but good action films – are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.”

— Sylvester Stallone

222. “I’m more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time.”

— Sylvester Stallone

223. “What I’m trying to do now in my life – not just with the building, but with everything – is to construct things that will have enduring qualities, and won’t just be ephemeral flashes in the pan.”

— Sylvester Stallone

224. “Racing’s very much like the world of acting. You have your front runners and you have guys that are there for the long race, and you have other guys that block for other people, that are called supporting and character actors. It’s all the same kind of situation.”

— Sylvester Stallone

225. “The action movies changed radically when it became possible to Velcro your muscles on. It was the beginning of a new era. The visual took over. The special effects became more important than the single person. That was the beginning of the end.”

— Sylvester Stallone

226. “I never quite understood these actors – though I envy them sometimes – who can lie out for a year or two. I feel as though time is a real pressing issue, and I want to get as much work done in the time that I have left.”

— Sylvester Stallone

227. “The way to be successful in Hollywood is to be as obnoxious as the next guy.”

— Sylvester Stallone

228. “Everyone has this conjecture that action films are somewhat less prestigious than dramatic films. Nothing could be further from the truth. I’ve done them both and this is hard and dangerous.”

— Sylvester Stallone

229. “There is an age-old proverb that really does hold true in every area of life – in relations between nations and right down to the most subtle and sophisticated or must unstable and unsophisticated relations between lovers – and it is this: they took “kindness” for “weakness.””

— Sylvester Stallone

230. “Lighting can bring out certain contours in the body, in the face, in the eyes, that otherwise flat lighting couldn’t.”

— Sylvester Stallone

231. “On the sequel, you’ve lost the element of surprise. Usually, on the first one you may not go very, very deep into character; the second one you start to explore the character a bit more.”

— Sylvester Stallone

232. “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.”

— Sylvester Stallone

233. “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.”

— Sylvester Stallone

234. “With a lot of comedians, one of their major attributes is that they look comedic, with a certain hangdog or manic expression. I look like the neighborhood bully. That doesn’t elicit laughter.”

— Sylvester Stallone

235. “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.”

— Sylvester Stallone

236. “A lot of time people are like, “oh my God, you’re stereotyped.” Good, then you’re known for something.”

— Sylvester Stallone

237. “If you look at people that have survived crashing in the mountains and lived up in the snow for 40 days – it’s possible to do extraordinary feats.”

— Sylvester Stallone

238. “Eventually writing became more interesting to me than acting.”

— Sylvester Stallone

239. “Now it really is, believe it or not, 90% of the films are green lit, not by the studio heads, but by the marketing department.”

— Sylvester Stallone

240. “I’ve made a lot of career mistakes. A lot. Actually, a lot of personal ones, too.”

— Sylvester Stallone

241. “I watch a lot of news, and I watch musical shows because I think the music of the young people is really their news reports. They let you know how their country is going through their eyes, and about their experiences in the everyday shock of growing up.”

— Sylvester Stallone

242. “I’ve had a lot of operations. I’m kind of like Franken-actor.”

— Sylvester Stallone

243. “There are endless exercises for arms, but the basics are best-chinups and pushups.”

— Sylvester Stallone

244. “I think I’m a much better painter than an actor.”

— Sylvester Stallone

245. “Characters I’ve played, they used to impact my paintings, like 80 percent of the time, and especially when I was doing an action film.”

— Sylvester Stallone

246. “Suddenly I’ve got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.”

— Sylvester Stallone

247. “Artists die twice. First creatively. Then physically. The second one is the easiest.”

— Sylvester Stallone

248. “I love being verbal in films.”

— Sylvester Stallone

249. “I never started out to be an action actor. I was an ensemble actor.”

— Sylvester Stallone

250. “I try to combine in my paintings cinematic feeling, emotional feeling, and sometimes actually writing on the page to combine all the different elements of communication.”

— Sylvester Stallone