Sylvester Stallone Quotes

I know it's my fault I should've gave more.

Well, of course, every actor's limited, and I am the first one to admit it, in all honesty, when I think that I've hit the wall a bit. I'm not ashamed at all, I think it's a process that you have to go through. That's how you learn.

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.

I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

I reached a point where I didn't think I was that great. I'm not being humble. I was looking at things and thinking: 'You're not really good in that'. I think I was becoming boring as well as bored. It was nobody's fault except mine - probably - and it might not even be my fault.

I'm just looking always for characters that change, because I want to get better, as an actor and as a person.

I have a lot of fun writing for artists, but I'm learning to apply that fun to myself.

I am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as an actor.

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

I look back at the looks I've had over the years. I'm proud of myself that I had the courage to experiment with crazy hairstyles and some fashion things. Would I do it again? No. But that's part of the learning process and getting from point A to point B.

My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person.

I really just want to continue to challenge myself. And I want to continue to grow as an artist. I never want to stop.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

I have a pretty clear picture of the whole weight of my life, and there are things that I've done that are good, and I'm proud of them. There are things that I'm really not proud of, and that they, you have to look at me with a perspective, and I try really hard to do that, to keep from thinking I'm cool and ever so smart.

I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.

We're all works of art in progress.

He who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before often repeated.

I found at a certain point in my acting career that I was just bored. I had too much energy. I had too many ideas.

If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it.

I would like to believe that I am a collaborative actor. That's why I love all the directors I have worked with in recent times, as they are all collaborative directors. I think my constant desire is to keep bettering my own work. I don't get easily satisfied with my work; I am very critical of it. I learn from my mistakes.

I'm really excited about what the future holds and to grow as an individual and as an artist.

My 'if it's not broken, don't fix it' type attitude might have held me back and made me complacent.

I try to make sure the projects that I choose are something that will teach me something new, either about myself or about my art.

I'd spent a year and a half without a record deal and had been doing a lot of soul-searching, a lot of self-examination and a lot of experimentation in other musical forms.

If I were going to teach a course, it would be called Don't Breathe Your Own Exhaust.