Sylvester Stallone

To me, the most perfect screenplay ever written will be one word, when you finally reduce it down to that. Until then, writing will be an imperfect form of communication.

Sylvester Stallone

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

Until America, door to door, takes every handgun, this is what you’re gonna have. It’s pathetic. It really is pathetic. It’s sad. We’re living in the Dark Ages over there.

Sylvester Stallone

Voices are like fingerprints, from Cagney to Bogart. They never lost it. My voice is instrumental in categorizing me.

Sylvester Stallone

We do two things in life: We race the clock and everything is a struggle. One way or not, it’s a metaphorical battle all of the time.

Sylvester Stallone

We follow a certain pattern, a maze, if you will, every day, tracing our steps into certain districts and neighborhoods and back home. So it’s easy for people to relate to clichés. That’s why comedy routines are based on mutual experiences of clichés.

Sylvester Stallone

We’re all expendable. We think the world’s going to stop when a pope dies, or a king. And then… life goes on.

Sylvester Stallone

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

When a parent loses a child, there is no greater pain.

Sylvester Stallone

When crossing someone’s borders you have to be prepared to engage in a war that is far more brutal than if it were to take place on neutral territory.

Sylvester Stallone