Quotes by Sylvester Stallone

"There's a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone."

"I try to combine in my paintings cinematic feeling, emotional feeling, and sometimes actually writing on the page to combine all the different elements of communication."

"Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure."

"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."

"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."

"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 could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned."

"I respect a woman too much to marry her."

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

"I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil."

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

"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."