I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager.

The champion’s management says let’s do this for real, for charity. Rocky says no but decides to be true to himself even though he’s going to be berated by everyone. Just to compete, not to...

there was a reluctance to go forward until everyone felt there was a script that echoed the kind of sincerity and values the first one had, and had some poignancy like the first one had.

The press, by and large, are fantastic. We’re talking about a small renegade group. They’re stalkers, legalized stalkers.

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,...

I respect a woman too much to marry her.

[The former] Italian Stallion … Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over.

Mike made a mistake making ‘Rocky’ and unleashing me to the public,

I’m a patriot of the heart.

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.

just to compete, not to win.

Real love is when you become selfless and you are more concerned about your mate’s or children’s egos than your own. You’re now a giver instead of a taker.

I’m more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time.

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.

Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place, and I don’t care how tough you are, it will beat you to...

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.

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.

If bad decorating was a hanging offense, there’d be bodies hanging from every tree!

Rocky Balboa’ is about everybody who feels they want to participate in the race of life, rather than be a bystander. You’re never too old to climb a mountain, if that’s your desire.

Consider the source…Don’t be a fool by listening to a fool.

We’ll try to capture the essence of the first couple of films,

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...

Suddenly I’ve got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.

I’m very, very humbled by that. There’s a lot of competition out there.

Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people, you can set your watch by them. And that’s love, even if it doesn’t seem...

There’s a computer fight between the reigning world champion and Balboa, and Balboa wins,

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.

That’s what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.

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.

Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.

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.

When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.

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...

Once is a man’s life, for one mortal moment, he must make a grab for immorality; if not, he has not lived.

That’s what Rocky is all about : pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.

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...

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

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...

It’s going great — there’s a lot of heart in it,

Rambo isn’t violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist.

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

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

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...

I’m very, very humbled by that,

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.

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...

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.

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.

Rocky is basically on his own — it’s very touching. People that were in the first one that you didn’t think much about are back, really minor characters are now major characters.

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.