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" 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. "

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" 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

You

Build

Climb

" I know I can't play funny roles in movies. I tried, and it didn't work. "

" 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. "

" There'll never be a 'Rocky IV.' You gotta call a halt. "

" When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn't expect me in comedies or musicals. "

Sylvester Stallone

Expect

Disaster

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

" 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. "

" I'm not right wing, I'm not left wing. I love my country. "

" I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey. "

" Boxing is sort of an inevitability. We know they are going to be pounding each other. "

" When people meet me, they're often surprised - I talk a great deal. "

Sylvester Stallone

People

Meet

" 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. "

" The world will never come together and say, 'We are one.' "

" When I saw 'Hercules,' my mind just exploded because I was extremely thin; I was insecure. I literally ran out of the theatre and started lifting things, anything I could think of - milk crates. I'm still lifting things. It changed my life. "

" With a lot of comedians, one of their major attributes is that they look comedic, with a certain hangdog or manic expression. I look like the neighborhood bully. That doesn't elicit laughter. "

" 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. "

" I'll always have this blue-collar connection. 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. "

" 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. "

" I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism. "

" The phenomenal thing that happened to me is that I was able to create two memorable men: one is the ultimate optimist, Rocky, and then you have Rambo, the ultimate pessimist. You're going to always be remembered for them, no matter what you do. "

" Every time I've failed, people had me out for the count, but I always come back. "

Sylvester Stallone

Out

Time

" I'm not just painting for painting's sake. I want to be truthful. "

" I'm not a genetically superior person. I built my body. "

" Usually whenever you're scared of something, do it. If you're not afraid of it, don't do it. "

" The action movies changed radically when it became possible to Velcro your muscles on. It was the beginning of a new era. The visual took over. The special effects became more important than the single person. That was the beginning of the end. "

" When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair. "

Sylvester Stallone

School

End

" The day I can't walk is the day I quit movies. "

" The biggest and most interesting crisis in the world is the human crisis, and it never gets boring. It goes back to Shakespeare. You don't need a gimmick; it's just man against man and their intolerance of each other. "

" I want to turn my attention to movies about love relationships. Exploring the female psyche - there ought to be some interesting discoveries there. Love stories. If you do it right, people want to hear romantic dialog. "

" 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. "