Top 154 Quotes by Sylvester Stallone

I try to combine in my paintings cinematic feeling, emotional feeling, and sometimes actually writing on the page to combine all the different elements of communication.

I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.

Movies are the work of a collective conscious. It takes 500-800 people on a movie to complete a vision.

Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.

I just fight in my movies, never in real life.

People assume that 'The Expendables' is old school, but it's only old school because that's the way I know how to make an action film. It's pretty real.

I believe an artist dies twice. The first time, it's just terrible - I've been there when the phone isn't ringing for years.

I consider myself something of a raconteur. I have a rather audacious sense of humour.

For 'Rocky II,' I got a torn pectoral muscle, I got all beat up inside, I had to have an operation to splice things back together.

You know what I think happened? After 'Rocky,' I was almost set up in the eyes of the media to make a flop.