Sylvester Stallone Quotes

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.
Sylvester Stallone

Someone, Rejection, Rather

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

Inspirational, Power, Truth

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

Great, Future, Fear

For every guy, there is an opportunity to be a lot better than he thought he could be. We can't all be the star of the team, but we can be a star in our life. That's where you set your goal.
Sylvester Stallone

Life, Thought, Goal

When you're scared, when you're hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you're going to see what you're really made of.
Sylvester Stallone

Life, Made, Hurting

I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.
Sylvester Stallone

Great, Future, Past

That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.
Sylvester Stallone

Another, Pride, Reputation

Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived.
Sylvester Stallone

Life, Moment, Once

When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.
Sylvester Stallone

Teacher, School, End

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

Men, Strength, Strong

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

Peace, Good, War

I respect a woman too much to marry her.
Sylvester Stallone

Respect, Woman, Her

Most action is based on redemption and revenge, and that's a formula. Moby Dick was formula. It's how you get to the conclusion that makes it interesting.
Sylvester Stallone

Revenge, Makes, Action

Don't be gullible, use life before it uses you. Understand there are no free lunches, and for every action you take, there's a reaction.
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Life, Understand, Before

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

Business, Talk, Personal

I'm not a genetically superior person. I built my body.
Sylvester Stallone

Person, Body, Superior

You've got to show your soul otherwise you're just a piece of equipment.
Sylvester Stallone

Soul, Show, Piece

'Rocky' represents the optimistic side of life, and 'Rambo' represents purgatory.
Sylvester Stallone

Life, Side, Optimistic

I love being verbal in films.
Sylvester Stallone

Love, Films, Verbal

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

Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.
Sylvester Stallone

Trying, Play, Playing

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.
Sylvester Stallone

Success, Failure

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

Great, Art, Mood

I'm a patriot of the heart.
Sylvester Stallone

I'm more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time.
Sylvester Stallone

Time, Challenge, Sense

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: July 6, 1946

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