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...”

“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 t...”

“If you look at people that have survived crashing in the mountains and lived up in the snow for 40 days - it's possible to do extraordinary feats.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I was on cruise control from '85 to '95, and it was my fault. There were a lot of self-inflicted wounds, when I was not doing any original material. I wasn't directing. I wasn't writing. Tha...”

“Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.”

“If bad decorating was a hanging offense, there'd be bodies hanging from every tree!”

“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.”

“Years ago I was diagnosed with a condition, and my doctors prescribed human growth hormone and testosterone for its treatment. Under medical supervision, I have continued to use both medicat...”

“I want to turn my attention to movies about love relationships. Exploring the female psyche - there ought to be some interesting discoveries there. Love stories. If you do it right, people w...”

“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.”

“I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager.”

“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.”

“Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.”

“Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that's just the way it is.”

“When I saw 'Hercules,' my mind just exploded because I was extremely thin; I was insecure. I literally ran out of the theatre and started lifting things, anything I could think of - milk cra...”

“If you express yourself too much, you're considered weak.”

“There might have been a period around 'Tango & Cash' when I was nearly fashionable. My problem is that my weight's always been changing for the movies I'm in.”

“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.”