Sylvester Stallone and Talia Shire the beautiful ♥
Not forgetting Coach Mickey Goldmill (Burgess Meredith RIP), Pauly Pennino (Burt Young RIP) and Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers RIP).
Dear Mr.Stallone... I just celebrated my 52nd Birthday at a Coast Salish potlatch and feast on Jan 20th!
You were mentioned when they served me the cake! BY ME!!!! I'm a Rocky too secretly!!!!!!!! THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES!!! A whole new generation of young people will have you for inspiration now! GB and KBO!!!
Sophia Stallone: Well, that's something that you've always done. And that's a side to you that I don't think a lot of people know.
And that's why we think this episode would be a great opportunity to ask you questions that maybe might be inappropriate for other interviewers to ask you, but we can get away with it because...
Sistine Stallone: Because we're your daughters.
Sophia Stallone: because we're your kids.
Sylvester Stallone: Fair enough. Ask those questions. Ask us the difficult ones.
Sophia Stallone: I mean, yeah. Let's just get into... Should we start when you were just a wee little boy?
Sistine Stallone: A wee little boy.
Sylvester Stallone: A wee little boy? Yeah, that's fine. Okay.
Sophia Stallone: All right. Let's go into your childhood. Cause you have quite the interesting childhood.
Sistine Stallone: Yeah. Oh, if you could describe yourself in three words growing up, what would it be?
Sylvester Stallone: Seriously?
Sistine Stallone: Yeah.
Sylvester Stallone: Okay. Um... loner. Very, uh, expressive. Really loud, outgoing. And, without a doubt, um... I'd say I got along very well, conversing.
Sophia Stallone: Yeah, but it's almost because from what you've told us growing up, that you really just had to fend for yourself. You were you were kind of like a feral street kid. No, really, I mean, your parents dropped you off
Sylvester Stallone: I had a very strange, My parents weren't exactly brought up like stellar human beings either.
Sistine Stallone: The craziest story I think, one of them, was the fact that you told, I mean, this is, I don't know if anyone knows this, but your parents dropped you off at like an old folks' home when you were younger.
Sophia Stallone: For the first five years of your life.
Sistine Stallone: For the first five years of your life, they had old people like raising you.
Sylvester Stallone: My formative years, yeah.
Sophia Stallone: No, you were left in an elderly home. So you were around, as a five-year-old, ninety-five-year-olds.
Sistine Stallone: My best friends.
Sophia Stallone: So so that's why you were figuring out how to converse with people very quickly, because you were able to have these conversations.
Sylvester Stallone: Yeah, my average friends were like ninety. Yeah, like I said, so about five years old. Yeah, at the time I didn't think it was so bad, but when you look back on it, it's not exactly a smart choice. Daycare centers, you have daycare centers today, back then they really didn't have, they had boarding houses.
Muhammad Ali and Sylvester Stallone at the 1977 Academy Awards is awesome. 🥊🏆
The Champ playfully facing off with Rocky himself live on stage. Ali throwing jabs (literally), Stallone loving every second. The coolest crossover moment in Oscar history.
Sylvester Stallone: “My biggest regret is that I didn't do Cobra's franchise, Tango & Cash and Demolition Man. I felt each one of those had at least three movies in them... I was just, I guess maybe too lazy."
I have no idea who this guy is playing Sylvester Stallone in the upcoming I PLAY ROCKY movie but I don’t think you could find a more perfect person for the part.
His voice and especially his Stallone/Rocky mannerisms are literally perfect….
Sylvester Stallone admits Cobra was based on an elite, rogue police death squad that operated in secret
"Cobra was triggered by a squad of policemen in the 40s and 50s here called the Hats or something like that"
"they would go out and take care of business on their own, you know, you're the disease, I'm the cure kind of mentality"
"why don't I create this character and he's head of a group called the Zombie Squad. Even though you never see them, I work for the Zombie Squad"
"this gothic comic kind of thing, you know what I mean, the bad guy with a knife with spikes going around in the middle of the night. It is way over the top"
"think of Bruce Springsteen with a badge. There it is. There's your concept right there"
Sylvester Stallone reveals he once hated Arnold Schwarzenegger so much, he had to hit the gym just to compete with him .
Jimmy Fallon: I read that you guys actually hated each other for a while.
Sylvester Stallone: Well, we were very competitive.
Sylvester Stallone: Yeah, I think “hate” is a good word. It is! Come on.
Sylvester Stallone: I wanted to strangle him.
Sylvester Stallone: We wanted to strangle each other. I did.
Sylvester Stallone: No, I really respect this guy. I think he’s brilliant.