Rambo isn’t violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist.
—Sylvester Stallone
Topics: Violence
I learned the real meaning of love. Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people, you can set your watch by them. And that’s love, even if it doesn’t seem very exciting.
—Sylvester Stallone
Topics: Love
I believe there’s an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.
—Sylvester Stallone
Topics: Being Ourselves
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
Topics: Divorce
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
Topics: Actors, Acting
I thought I had reached a point in life where everything would be smooth. But it is not. It just gets more jagged and pitted and filled with turns that take you into the dark recesses of your mind. It never seems to get easy.
—Sylvester Stallone
Topics: Opportunities, Reality
I am not the smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeeded because I keep going, and going, and going.
—Sylvester Stallone
Topics: Perseverance, Endurance, Resolve
Ya gotta do what ya gotta do.
—Sylvester Stallone
Topics: Aptness, Appropriateness
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
Topics: Divorce
I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.
—Sylvester Stallone
Topics: Win
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
Topics: Audiences
If you’re gonna be a failure, at least be one at something you enjoy.
—Sylvester Stallone
Topics: Being Ourselves, Failures, Mistakes
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