30 colossal Stallone quotes that will make you think and laugh
Sly has been around the block and I love his movies. The best part which not everybody knows is that he won an Oscar for the script of Rocky that he wrote himself. So beneath all of this muscle and surgery there is a kind heart and a smart brain. Here 30 quotes of this movie colossus to motivate you to get through your day.
1. I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.
2. I think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains do become valleys after a while... if you keep on walking.
3. 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.
4. I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.
5. Rambo isn't violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist.
6. I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager.
7. 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.
8. A lot of guys have muscles. A lot of strong men in this world. I think it's important to show that even under all this strength there's a fragile side, a side that can be affected.
9. 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.
10. I made some truly awful movies. 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes.
11. People think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in sight.
12. I've never made a film that lost money.
13. 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.
14. I was an insecure kid. Once I saw 'Hercules' with Steve Reeves, it completely changed my life. If I had never gone to that film, I wouldn't be here today.
15. Life is more than sunglasses and hit movies. Reality - that's the main event.
16. We're all expendable. We think the world's going to stop when a pope dies, or a king. And then... life goes on.
17. The trouble with remakes is that people fall in love with the original. It's like peanut butter. If you try to change the taste of peanut butter, you're in trouble.
18. I am not the richest, smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and going and going.
19. Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.
20. You've got to show your soul otherwise you're just a piece of equipment.
21. When I'm doing a movie, I eat the same thing every day. For lunch, it's tuna salad or chicken salad and cole slaw. That's it. For dinner it's either veal and rice, fish and rice or steak and rice. It gets boring; boy, does it get boring.
22. I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.
23. I have all kinds of chest injuries; I tore my vein during 'Rocky II' and had 60 stitches. If you've seen 'Rocky Balboa,' you'll know how bad they look.
24. Usually whenever you're scared of something, do it. If you're not afraid of it, don't do it.
25. At the end of the day, 'Rocky' is a love story, and he could never have reached the final bell without Adrian.
26. I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.
27. If you express yourself too much, you're considered weak.
28. I have tons of regrets, but I think that's one of the reasons that push people to create things. Out of their angst, their regret, comes the best from artists, painters and writers.
29. In the movies, I kill guys with an axe. In real life, I can't control a nine-year-old girl.
30. You know you've been around when they start to remake your own movies when you're still alive.
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