The more I go to church and the more I turn myself over to the process of believing in Jesus and listening to His Word and having Him guide my hand, I feel as though the pressure is off me now.
You're a disease. And I'm the cure.
I'm not a genetically superior person. I built my body.
People think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in sight.
When you're pushed killing is as easy as breathing.
I just like stories about redemption about getting a second chance at life, I think everyone in the world has a few major mistakes they've made in there lives and if they could just go back and correct it... but, unfortunately they don't get a chance usually it's almost impossible.
I'm the Hiroshima of love.
The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as a paintbrush.
I really am a manifestation of my own fantasy.
To know that the odds are so high that only through the perishing of your life will the minions survive, that's love. That's heroism.
I have made a lot of career mistakes, a lot and I have made a lot of personal ones too!
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.
Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.
Movies are the work of a collective conscious. It takes 500-800 people on a movie to complete a vision.
I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.
I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.
Through failure, I found different ways to reverse my problems and get into the mainstream of Hollywood.
That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.
My favorite snack would have to be Fritos, no doubt about it. Fritos and mayonnaise. I know. Really healthy, isn't it?
I consider myself something of a raconteur. I have a rather audacious sense of humour.
Making a movie is the same as an orchestra; it's moving all the different instruments and the sounds, the kinetic and the auditory and the visual all together. I'm probably the trombone.
In Philadelphia, there's no delineation, they address me as Rocky, for real. They'll say things like: "Rocky, do you like this coat?" Or: "Rock, say hi to my sister." Or: "Yo Rock, I know a great restaurant." There's no Sylvester. Even the Mayor goes: "It's good to have Rocky here today."
Theater is like boxing - having the audience ringside. It's instant gratification. Or horrification.
If bad decorating was a hanging offense, there'd be bodies hanging from every tree!
Boxing is a great exercise ... as long as you can yell "cut" whenever you want to.
