Sylvester Stallone Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Without love, loyalty, desires, passion, courage, dignities, faith, beliefs and all the other ingredients that go into making the human soul something so elevated that only God knows its limits, we are only shells bobbing aimlessly in a calm sea of mediocrity. ...And if you can figure that out, please write and explain it to me because you're a better man than I am.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Loyalty, Writing, Passion

• I really have very little aspirations about acting because I think that probably the best things have come and gone. I would like to focus on writing and directing. I love writing and directing even though writing can be incredibly painful and lonely. I get great satisfaction from doing it.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Lonely, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• If I'd succeeded right away at acting I wouldn't have sought out writing.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Writing, Acting, Ifs

  "New again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 2, 2015.

• Sometimes I write with music on, and if I'm in a good flow, I don't even hear it.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Writing, Flow, Sometimes

  Interview with Chad Williams, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 11, 2010.

• Eventually writing became more interesting to me than acting.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Writing, Interesting, Acting

  "New again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 2, 2015.

• 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.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Communication, Writing, Emotional

  "Sylvester Stallone still waging war against Communists, now with his paintings" by Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. November 05, 2013.

• Clichés are what good writing is all about. Because our lives are basically clichés.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Writing, Good Writing, Our Lives

  "New Again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1985.

• I was on cruise control from '85 to '95, and it was my fault. There were a lot of self-inflicted wounds, when I was not doing any original material. I wasn't directing. I wasn't writing. That's not who I am.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Writing, Self, Who I Am

• With writing, I think you have to be honest with yourself. I have a certain kind of writing; that is, I like to really embellish the human spirit. You have to write about something you have a feel for.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Writing, Thinking, Spirit

  "New Again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1985.

• Nothing's harder than writing. There's no comparison. With directing, you can bounce a lot of ideas around. There's tremendous support - you've got editors and sound mixers. With writing, it's all you, and it's just crippling when people tear up your pages.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Writing, Support You, Editors

• To me, the most perfect screenplay ever written will be one word, when you finally reduce it down to that. Until then, writing will be an imperfect form of communication.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Communication, Writing, Perfect

  "New Again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1985.

• I'm astounded by people who take eighteen years to write something. That's how long it took that guy to write Madame Bovary, and was that ever on the best-seller list?

  Sylvester Stallone

  Writing, Years, Long

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