495 Quotes by 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.

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.

I never quite understood these actors – though I envy them sometimes – who can lie out for a year or two. I feel as though time is a real pressing issue, and I want to get as much work done in the time that I have left.

If I’d succeeded right away at acting I wouldn’t have sought out writing.

I don’t fall into the physical manifestation of a man of letters. So I guess people assume the scripts are delivered to me under the door.

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.

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

And if I look at my icebox, there’s no way I’m sitting there looking like Gandhi. I mean, I don’t have crickets in there and little green rice. No, I mean it’s a pretty liberal icebox. It’s all in there.

I think there’s something about being a neophyte that’s refreshing and hard to duplicate; it brings about real innovation. Innovation usually comes about through blind ignorance.