110+ Sylvester Stallone Quotes On College, Action And Drama

Sylvester Stallone is an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. He is well known for his role in the Rocky and Rambo film series. He has also appeared in other successful films, such as Cop Land, The Expendables, and Escape Plan. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Sylvester Stallone on life, college, action.

Top 10 Sylvester Stallone Quotes

1. Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades.
2. I am not the richest, smartest, or most talented person in the world, but I succeeded because i keep going and going and going.
3. There's a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone.
4. I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.
5. I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.
6. Rambo isn't violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist.
7. Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that's just the way it is.
8. Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.
9. Back there I could fly a gunship, I could drive a tank, I was in charge of million dollar equipment, back here I can't even hold a job PARKING CARS!
10. I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.

Sylvester Stallone Image Quotes

Rambo isn't violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist. — Sylvester Stallone

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

Sylvester Stallone Short Quotes

• It ain't how hard you hit; it's about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward.
• Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.
• Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.
• In a contest between me and a bulldog, you would say the bulldog is cuter.
• That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.
• Polo is like tennis - you literally have to live it.
• Gangster is the truest friend I can ever ask for.
• I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.
• Boxing is sort of an inevitability. We know they are going to be pounding each other.
• I consider myself something of a raconteur. I have a rather audacious sense of humour.

Sylvester Stallone Quotes About Life

No one will hit you harder than life itself. It doesn't matter how hard you hit back. It's about how much you can take, and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward. That's how you win. — Sylvester Stallone

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

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. — Sylvester Stallone

Life is more than sunglasses and hit movies. Reality - that's the main event. — Sylvester Stallone

I think there comes a time when you realize that you need God in your life, God's Word, and the spiritual guidance that only He can give. — Sylvester Stallone

Life's not about how hard of a hit you can give... it's about how many you can take, and still keep moving forward. — Sylvester Stallone

I realized, the older I get, the more difficult life becomes. It's not easier, it's more difficult. — Sylvester Stallone

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

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

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

Sylvester Stallone Quotes About Action

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

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

Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture. — Sylvester Stallone

You're a disease. And I'm the cure. — Sylvester Stallone

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

If you look back at life, I bet you will regret about 80% of your actions. But life consists of all mistakes. — Sylvester Stallone

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

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

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

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

Sylvester Stallone Quotes About Divorce

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

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

It took me a long time to be convinced that marriage was right for me because I've come from a long line of broken marriages. My parents divorced, and I had two broken marriages myself. — Sylvester Stallone

Sylvester Stallone Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

Rambo isn't violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist. — Sylvester Stallone

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

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

Now if you know what you're worth then go out and get what you're worth. But ya gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that and that ain't you! You're better than that! — Sylvester Stallone

I think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains do become valleys after a while... if you keep on walking. — Sylvester Stallone

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

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

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

The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as a paintbrush. — Sylvester Stallone

I think kids growing up, if they were picked on and feeling inferior at 12, they're going to feel that way at 72. You just deal with it better. I'm serious. — Sylvester Stallone

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

There aren't a lot of opportunities for that rite of passage that makes you a man. War is one of them, and violent sports are another. — Sylvester Stallone

I know people get upset and go, 'They're going to take away the assault weapon'. But who needs an assault weapon? Like, really, unless you're carrying out an assault. — Sylvester Stallone

When I'm doing a movie, I eat the same thing every day. For lunch, it's tuna salad or chicken salad and cole slaw. That's it. For dinner it's either veal and rice, fish and rice or steak and rice. It gets boring; boy, does it get boring. — Sylvester Stallone

Real love is when you become selfless and you are more concerned about your mate's or children's egos than your own. You're now a giver instead of a taker. — Sylvester Stallone

I have tons of regrets, but I think that's one of the reasons that push people to create things. Out of their angst, their regret, comes the best from artists, painters and writers. — Sylvester Stallone

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

Making a movie is the same as an orchestra; it's moving all the different instruments and the sounds, the kinetic and the auditory and the visual all together. I'm probably the trombone. — Sylvester Stallone

Theater is like boxing - having the audience ringside. It's instant gratification. Or horrification. — Sylvester Stallone

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

Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art. — 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

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

The trouble with remakes is that people fall in love with the original. It's like peanut butter. If you try to change the taste of peanut butter, you're in trouble. — 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

At the very end, the one person who Rambo should kill, he doesn't kill. He lets it live. Because you can't kill that kind of hypocritical bureaucracy. It goes on forever. — Sylvester Stallone

Art is the ability to communicate through an intermediary and to convey one's feelings through an isolated object. It's inspiration and incubation. Putting my subjective feelings into an objective form and then on to you for a subjective interpretation. — Sylvester Stallone

Crunches are much more effective than regular sit-ups because they specifically target your upper abdominal muscles rather than your hip muscles. If you're not used to them, they can cause soreness a day or two later, but it's a 'cool' soreness. A badge of honor. — Sylvester Stallone

I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it, then that's a noble project. — Sylvester Stallone

I wanted to show I had balls at age 60. Just because society says I'm old, doesn't mean that I am. I'm pursuing happiness, even if it makes the people around me unhappy. — 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

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

I was an ambitious child and I tended to be scatterbrained. If I was at school and saw a bird outside the window I wanted to follow it. I was adventurous. — Sylvester Stallone

I'm the Hiroshima of love. — Sylvester Stallone

All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves. — Sylvester Stallone

Every morning, I crawl out of bed. I sit there and think, 'Do I really need this?' And I drag myself to the gym in my garage. It's not fun. I hate it. I work out alone. Weights. — Sylvester Stallone

The idea of Rambo is kind of intriguing as a closing chapter. When you shoot a film as a sequel to do another sequel it's a whole other tone. But when you know it's the final chapter you try and put in there as much emotion, understanding and closure as you can. So, whereas Rocky is a lighter character and optimistic, Rambo is much darker. — Sylvester Stallone

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

If you're gonna be a failure, at least be one at something you enjoy. — Sylvester Stallone

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

The way to be successful in Hollywood is to be as obnoxious as the next guy. — Sylvester Stallone

To know that the odds are so high that only through the perishing of your life will the minions survive, that's love. That's heroism. — Sylvester Stallone

If bad decorating was a hanging offense, there'd be bodies hanging from every tree! — Sylvester Stallone

I used to tweet, but it's an act of futility. You're not really making any impact, and if you find yourself in a mood when you wanna be a bit controversial and you post something, you suddenly realise, 'Oh my God!' because you've opened yourself up to a bunch of criticism from strangers. — Sylvester Stallone

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

I have two lovely sons and some good memories, but I've had a rather tumultuous personal life. It hasn't been dull; I've been the Hiroshima of love. — Sylvester Stallone

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

My favorite snack would have to be Fritos, no doubt about it. Fritos and mayonnaise. I know. Really healthy, isn't it? — Sylvester Stallone

People think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in sight. — Sylvester Stallone

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

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

If I just know in my gut that a film is going to work, I'll fight to the death over it, and I convince myself. When a movie is purely a money job, the film doesn't have the same sort of intensity, and the audience almost senses it, at least that's the way I perceive it. So, yeah, the idea is to do something that you truly, truly believe in. — Sylvester Stallone

It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful. — Sylvester Stallone

Most of the films I myself like don't do very well. Every director, he has a choice, whether to go for subtlety and try to articulate every minute detail, or to go for the broad strokes and hope that the people will fill in between the lines. I tend to go for the broader strokes. — Sylvester Stallone

Movies are a collective art. Art by proxy. — Sylvester Stallone

Age is a state of old mind. It gets to a point where if you get old enough, you forget how old you are, and that's the best thing. And then you walk around kind of like in a fog. — Sylvester Stallone

The problem is, your ego sometimes tells you that you can do many things. But sometimes it's best to stay focused and be honest with yourself. — Sylvester Stallone

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

Boxing is a great exercise ... as long as you can yell "cut" whenever you want to. — Sylvester Stallone

The biggest and most interesting crisis in the world is the human crisis, and it never gets boring. It goes back to Shakespeare. You don't need a gimmick; it's just man against man and their intolerance of each other. — Sylvester Stallone

Nothing's harder than writing. There's no comparison. With directing, you can bounce a lot of ideas around. There's tremendous support - you've got editors and sound mixers. With writing, it's all you, and it's just crippling when people tear up your pages. — Sylvester Stallone

Now if you know what you're worth. Then go out and get what you're worth. — 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

Plan B. You've always got to have a Plan B. — Sylvester Stallone

I wish I had thought of Velcro muscles myself. I didn't have to go to the gym for all those years, all the hours wedded to the iron game, as we call it. — Sylvester Stallone

Rocky is a very predictable movie. The ending is a foregone conclusion. — Sylvester Stallone

Painting is as close as a person can get to actually capturing the heat of the moment. — Sylvester Stallone

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

There's no one in the world close to Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is a phenomenon. He's brilliant. Just because his physique belies that, don't underestimate him. — Sylvester Stallone

That's the hardest thing about doing sequels - you've lost the element of surprise. — Sylvester Stallone

It's funny because when Jason [Statham] was drowning I was filming with an iPhone. It may have been a bit insensitive but I just thought, "you know what, this was a magic moment". And I couldn't help him anyway because I didn't want to drown. — Sylvester Stallone

You have to be really loyal to the people that supported you when you were coming up. — Sylvester Stallone

When you are young, you often think that the world spins around you. You think you can do anything, can take the world on your shoulders. — Sylvester Stallone

Clichés are what good writing is all about. Because our lives are basically clichés. — Sylvester Stallone

Life Lessons by Sylvester Stallone

1. Sylvester Stallone is an inspiring example of resilience and determination, having overcome numerous obstacles to become one of the most successful actors in Hollywood.
2. He has taught us that with hard work and dedication, anything is possible, no matter how difficult the odds may seem.
3. He also reminds us to never give up on our dreams, no matter how many times we may fail, and to always keep pushing forward.