Stallone: "I am not the richest, smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and going and going."

Stallone: "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."

Stallone: "Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure."

Stallone: "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."

Stallone: "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."

Stallone: "A lot of actors, and artists in general, never feel secure in love. They always feel everything's going to be taken away from them, professionally and personally; they're extremely emotional and volatile."

Stallone: "I know I'm incredibly unpredictable, and that's the only thing I'm sure of."

Stallone: "I think everyone has a certain kind of formula in their life. When you deviate from that formula, you're going to fail big or you're gonna win big."

Stallone: "When life hits you pretty hard, you can go into a dark corner."

Stallone: "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."

Stallone: "When you're scared, when you're hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you're going to see what you're really made of."

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."

Stallone: "I have a fear of heights that borders on mania."

Stallone: "I was on cruise control from '85 to '95, and it was my fault. There were a lot of self-inflicted wounds, when I was not doing any original material. I wasn't directing. I wasn't writing. That's not who I am."

Stallone: "In a contest between me and a bulldog, you would say the bulldog is cuter."

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."

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

Stallone: "I'm always looking for a new challenge. There are a lot of mountains to climb out there. When I run out of mountains, I'll build a new one."

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

Stallone: "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."

Stallone: "I respect a woman too much to marry her."

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."

Stallone: "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."

Stallone: "You are what you leave behind."

Stallone: "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."

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

Stallone: "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."

Stallone: "Don't be gullible, use life before it uses you. Understand there are no free lunches, and for every action you take, there's a reaction."

Stallone: "Every morning, I crawl out of bed. I sit there and think, 'Do I really need this?' And I drag myself to the gym in my garage. It's not fun. I hate it. I work out alone. Weights."

Stallone: "I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated."

Stallone: "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."

Stallone: "Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived."

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."

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