Sylvester Stallone
Sylvester Stallone
Sylvester Gardenzio Stalloneis an American actor, screenwriter, producer, and director. He is well known for his Hollywood action roles, namely boxer Rocky Balboa, the title character of the Rocky series' seven films from 1976 to 2015; soldier John Rambo from the four Rambo films, released between 1982 and 2008; and Barney Ross in the three The Expendables films from 2010 to 2014. He wrote or co-wrote most of the 14 films in all three franchises, and directed many of the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth6 July 1946
CountryUnited States of America
There are endless exercises for arms, but the basics are best-chinups and pushups.
At the very end, the one person who Rambo should kill, he doesn't kill. He lets it live. Because you can't kill that kind of hypocritical bureaucracy. It goes on forever.
I love being so tight on people in close-ups that the veins in their eyes look like the Mississippi River.
I am not the richest, smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and going and going.
I'm not a genetically superior person. I built my body.
Artists die twice. First creatively. Then physically. The second one is the easiest.
Dreams cost nothing. They are free. The hard part is just keeping them going.
I try to eliminate as much dialogue as possible, and I guess Rambo is my really best experiment with how to eliminate dialogue.
When you're an actor, you're a slave to other people's visions.
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.
The older I get the more things I gotta leave behind.
Boxing is the only sport where you have the audience coming right up to you and saying, "You Stink." And you got to deal with that. It's like being in front of the lions.
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.
When life hits you pretty hard, you can go into a dark corner.