Sylvester Stallone quotes His role in 'Rambo' and 'Rocky' Born: 07/06/1946 Country: usa

• “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) [love/more]
• “Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.” (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) [knowledge/help/pain/anxiety]
• “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) [power/truth]
• “When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.” (Sylvester Stallone) [high/school/student/start]
• “I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.” (Sylvester Stallone) [take]
• “That's what Rocky is all about : pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.” (Sylvester Stallone) [pride/reputation/being]
• “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/immortality]
• “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) [think]
• “Rambo isn't violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist.” (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) [director/business/business]
• “Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.” (Sylvester Stallone) [golf]
• “I respect a woman too much to marry her.” (Sylvester Stallone) [respect]
• “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)
• “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.” (Sylvester Stallone) [eyes]
• “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) [artist/artist/change]
• “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) [respect/women/support]
• “'Rocky Balboa' is about everybody who feels they want to participate in the race of life, rather than be a bystander. You're never too old to climb a mountain, if that's your desire.” (Sylvester Stallone) [life/mountain]
• “I'm very, very humbled by that. There's a lot of competition out there.” (Sylvester Stallone) [competition]
• “The champion's management says let's do this for real, for charity. Rocky says no but decides to be true to himself even though he's going to be berated by everyone. Just to compete, not to win.” (Sylvester Stallone) [charity]
• “I expect it (criticism). I would do the same thing. My wife is the most critical. She said, 'This is ridiculous...' But you have two choices - not to do it or do it.” (Sylvester Stallone) [thing/wife]
• “Once is a man's life, for one mortal moment, he must make a grab for immorality; if not, he has not lived.” (Sylvester Stallone) [life/moment]
• “Mike made a mistake making 'Rocky' and unleashing me to the public,” (Sylvester Stallone) [mistake]
• “It's going great -- there's a lot of heart in it,” (Sylvester Stallone)
• “I'm very, very humbled by that,” (Sylvester Stallone)
• “Rocky is basically on his own -- it's very touching. People that were in the first one that you didn't think much about are back, really minor characters are now major characters.” (Sylvester Stallone) [people/think]
• “there was a reluctance to go forward until everyone felt there was a script that echoed the kind of sincerity and values the first one had, and had some poignancy like the first one had.” (Sylvester Stallone) [honesty]
• “[The former] Italian Stallion ... Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over.” (Sylvester Stallone)
• “just to compete, not to win.” (Sylvester Stallone)
• “I am drawing on a lot of my feelings that are in sync with many people's feelings about facing the last chapter of their lives and how they want it to be written.” (Sylvester Stallone) [drawing/feelings/feelings]
• “The press, by and large, are fantastic. We're talking about a small renegade group. They're stalkers, legalized stalkers.” (Sylvester Stallone) [press/group]

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