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Sylvester Stallone's Famous Lines
Rocky and Adrian ice-skatingMovie/TV title:Rocky
Character name:Rocky
Quote(s):My father,my old man, he was never too smart he says to me,"You ain't got much of a brain,so you better start using your body."
MickeyMovie/TV title:Rocky
Character name:Mickey Goldmill
Quote(s):"Like the guy says,your gonna eat lightning and your gonna crap thunder,your gonna become a real serious person"
The most romantic scene in motion picture historyMovie/TV title:Rocky
Character name(s):Adrian and Rocky
Quote(s):"Listen,I wanna kiss you. You don't have to kiss me back if you don't wanna. I wanna kiss you."
Rocky and Adrian confessing their love for each otherMovie/TV title:Rocky
Character name(s):Adrian and Rocky

Quote(s):Rocky:Adrian!
Adrian:Rocky!
Rocky:Adrian
Rocky:Where's your hat?
Adrian:I love you!
Rocky:I love you!
Adrian:I love you! I love you! I love you! I
love you!


End picture from Rocky
Rocky Balboa Movie/TV title: Rocky Balboa
Character name: Rocky Balboa
Quote(s): Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't how hard you hit; it's about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. How much you can take, and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done. Now, if you know what you're worth, then go out and get what you're worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hit, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you are because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain't you. You're better than that!

Speaking to his son in Rocky Balboa (2006)
Rocky BalboaMovie/TV title: Rocky Balboa
Character name: Rocky Balboa
Quote(s): Yo, Adrian, we did it.

Speaking at Adrian's graveside, at end of Rocky Balboa (2006)
Rocky Movie/TV title: Rocky (1976)
Character name: Rocky Balboa
Quote(s): Yo, Adrian! It's me, Rocky.
Rocky Movie/TV title: Rocky (1976)
Character name: Rocky Balboa
Quote(s): You gotta be a moron... you gotta be a moron to wanna be a fighter.
Rocky Movie/TV title: Rocky (1976)
Character name: Rocky Balboa
Quote(s): I think we make a real sharp couple of coconuts - I'm dumb, you're shy, whaddaya think, huh?
Rocky Movie/TV title: Rocky (1976)
Character name: Rocky Balboa
Quote(s): [Asked why does he want to fight] Because I can't sing or dance.
Rocky Movie/TV title: Rocky (1976)
Character name: Rocky Balboa
Quote(s): Who am I kiddin'? I ain't even in the guy's league...It don't matter, 'cause I was nobody before...I was nobody. That don't matter either, ya know...It really don't matter if I lose this fight. It really don't matter if this guy opens my head, either. 'Cause all I wanna do is go the distance. Nobody's ever gone the distance with Creed. And if I can go that distance, ya see, and that bell rings, ya know, and I'm still standin', I'm gonna know for the first time in my life, ya see, that I weren't just another bum from the neighborhood.
Rocky Movie/TV title: Rocky (1976)
Character name: Rocky Balboa
Quote(s): If you stop this fight I'll kill you.
Rocky II Movie/TV title: Rocky II (1979)
Character name: Rocky Balboa
Quote(s): Do you like having a good time? Then you need-a-good-watch!
Rocky II Movie/TV title: Rocky II (1979)
Character name: Rocky Balboa
Quote(s): [chasing a chicken] I feel like a Kentucky Fried idiot.
Rocky II Movie/TV title: Rocky II (1979)
Character name: Rocky Balboa
Quote(s): Yo Adrian! I did it!!
Rocky III Movie/TV title: Rocky III (1982)
Character name: Rocky Balboa
Quote(s): You know you got a big mouth, you know?
Rocky IV Movie/TV title: Rocky IV (1985)
Character name: Rocky Balboa
Quote(s): If I can change, and you can change, everybody can change.
Rocky IV Movie/TV title: Rocky IV (1985)
Character name: Rocky Balboa
Quote(s): No, maybe I can't win, maybe the only thing I can do is just take everything he's got. But to beat me, he's gonna have to kill me, and to kill me, he's gonna have to have the heart to stand in front of me, and to do that, he's gotta be willing to die himself and I don't know if he's ready to do that. I don't know, I don't know.
Rocky IV Movie/TV title: Rocky IV (1985)
Character name: Rocky Balboa
Quote(s): Hey, yo Tommy, I didn't hear no bell.
Rocky V Movie/TV title: Rocky V (1990)
Character name: Rocky Balboa
Quote(s): Tommy: I want my respect!
Rocky: Come and get it.

Sylvester Stallone Quotes
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I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager.
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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.
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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.
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I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.
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I have two lovely sons and some good memories, but I've had a rather tumultuous personal life. It hasn't been dull; I've been the Hiroshima of love.
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I love being verbal in films.
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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.
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I respect a woman too much to marry her.
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I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.
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I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.
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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.
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I think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains do become valleys after a while... if you keep on walking.
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I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it, then that's a noble project.
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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.
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I'm a patriot of the heart.
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I'm more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time.
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I've been involved in something which was chaotic and insane. All I can say now is that I am, and intend to stay, a single man.
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I've kind of fashioned my life after a Slinky. Bend me in a million shapes, and eventually I'll spring back to what I originally was.
Sylvester Stallone

If bad decorating was a hanging offense, there'd be bodies hanging from every tree!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived.
Sylvester Stallone

Once is a man's life, for one mortal moment, he must make a grab for immorality; if not, he has not lived.
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Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.
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Rambo isn't violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist.
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Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.
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Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.
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That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.
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What I'm trying to do now in my life - not just with the building, but with everything - is to construct things that will have enduring qualities, and won't just be ephemeral flashes in the pan.
Sylvester Stallone

When I tried to branch out into comedy, I didn't do very well at it, so I went back to doing what I do naturally well, or what the audience expects from me - action pictures.
Sylvester Stallone

When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.
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When you're on top and you lead the parade, everyone's there throwing lilies and lilac water on your head. But when those parades have gone by and there's a storm in your heart, there are very few people that are going to sit there and listen to you bemoan life.
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