495 Quotes by Sylvester Stallone

I’d live in a museum if I could. I used to spend hours and hours in the Museum of Modern Art.

In the movies, I kill guys with an axe. In real life, I can’t control a nine-year-old girl.

I’m not a genetically superior person. I built my body.

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.”

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.

When crossing someone’s borders you have to be prepared to engage in a war that is far more brutal than if it were to take place on neutral territory.

I just want to say that, all you do, no matter how bad your diet is, for the first six months or year, I just reduce the amount, even if it’s horrible stuff. That you can deal with it.

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.

Good action films – not crap, but good action films – are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.