Sylvester Stallone

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

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

Sylvester Stallone

I really am a manifestation of my own fantasy.

Sylvester Stallone

I really have very little aspirations about acting because I think that probably the best things have come and gone. I would like to focus on writing and directing. I love writing and directing even though writing can be incredibly painful and lonely. I get great satisfaction from doing it.

Sylvester Stallone

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

Sylvester Stallone

I tell people diets don’t work. And I don’t care what they say. I have tried them all.

Sylvester Stallone

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

Sylvester Stallone

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

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

I think I came along at an opportune time. I don’t know if that would happen anymore, because the whole way of doing business in Hollywood has changed.

Sylvester Stallone