495 Quotes by 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.

The men in Vietnam weren’t allowed to fight the war with any kind of concern to win by the government. It was like a war of attrition.

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.

I’d rather do something I love badly than to feel bad about not doing something I love.

Today’s action hero, his skills are through technology. He can fly, he can throw a bolt of lightning, he can freeze people.

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.

For every guy, there is an opportunity to be a lot better than he thought he could be. We can’t all be the star of the team, but we can be a star in our life. That’s where you set your goal.

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.

Once I stopped trying to always do everything my way, and once I asked for God’s help, things have truly gone a different direction.