If bad decorating was a hanging offense, there'd be bodies hanging from every tree! - Sylvester Stallone
If you don't have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life. - Sylvester Stallone
If you look at people that have survived crashing in the mountains and lived up in the snow for 40 days – it’s possible to do extraordinary feats. - Sylvester Stallone
If you look back at life, I bet you will regret about 80% of your actions. But life consists of all mistakes. - Sylvester Stallone
If you think people are inherently good, you get rid of the police for 24 hours - see what happens. - Sylvester Stallone
If you're willing to take the humiliation of sticking your head above the crowd, maybe it's, you know, the pleasure will be worth the pain. - Sylvester Stallone
In the movies, I kill guys with an axe. In real life, I can't control a nine-year-old girl. - Sylvester Stallone
It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful. - Sylvester Stallone
Life is an opponent that never stops punching, so you better never stop punching back. - Sylvester Stallone
Like I said, I've got too much respect for women to marry them, but that doesn't mean you can't support them emotionally and financially. - Sylvester Stallone
Most action is based on redemption and revenge, and that's a formula. Moby Dick was formula. It's how you get to the conclusion that makes it interesting. - Sylvester Stallone
My favorite snack would have to be Fritos, no doubt about it. Fritos and mayonnaise. I know. Really healthy, isn't it? - Sylvester Stallone
My life has always been chaotic. From the time I got dressed in the back of a deflated, flat-tired, fish-smelling station wagon for Rocky. It's always been do it yourself, kind of like paper-clip it together. - Sylvester Stallone
Nothing's harder than writing. There's no comparison. With directing, you can bounce a lot of ideas around. There's tremendous support - you've got editors and sound mixers. With writing, it's all you, and it's just crippling when people tear up your pages. - Sylvester Stallone
On the sequel, you've lost the element of surprise. Usually, on the first one you may not go very, very deep into character; the second one you start to explore the character a bit more. - Sylvester Stallone
Once in one’s life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived. - Sylvester Stallone
Painting is as close as a person can get to actually capturing the heat of the moment. - Sylvester Stallone
People that spend time in a foxhole - they're never going to find that relationship anywhere else again... Everything else pales next to that. When you think about the Second World War vets - more than even the Vietnam vets - there's a brotherhood. - Sylvester Stallone
People think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in sight. - Sylvester Stallone