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
I just want to say that, all you do, no matter how bad your diet is, for the first six months or year, I just reduce the amount, even if it's horrible stuff. That you can deal with it.
I wanted to show I had balls at age 60.
The world meets nobody halfway. When you want something, you gotta take it.
Often people going into directing want to learn as much as they possibly can about "technique." And I say the hell with that.
I'm not just painting for painting's sake. I want to be truthful.
All young men want to prove themselves.
I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.
Sometimes when I don't want to cry, I cry. And when I want to I can't. It's subconscious. Like sexual performance.
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 am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager.
We'll try to capture the essence of the first couple of films,
The press, by and large, are fantastic. We're talking about a small renegade group. They're stalkers, legalized stalkers.
I expect it (criticism). I would do the same thing. My wife is the most critical. She said, 'This is ridiculous...' But you have two choices - not to do it or do it.
I am drawing on a lot of my feelings that are in sync with many people's feelings about facing the last chapter of their lives and how they want it to be written.