Sylvester Stallone

He is the older brother of singer and actor Frank Stallone. Lists of Van Damme quotes are compiled and available on the WWW. He has five children, Sage Moonblood and Seargeoh (with Czack), and Sophia Rose, Sistine Rose, and Scarlet Rose (with Flavin). He is especially well-known for his usage of the word aware (in English). He has been married three times, to Brigitte Nielsen, Sasha Czack, and Jennifer Flavin. In the French-speaking world, Jean-Claude Van Damme is well-known for the picturesque aphorisms that he delivers on a wide range of topics (personal well-being, ecology, etc.) in a strange mixture of French and English. His trademark sneer, drooping eyes, and slurred speech are the result of paralysis in the left side of his face caused by birth complications. Chuck Zito floored Van Damme with two punches.

He played the villain in the 2003 movie Spy Kids 3-D. In 1998, Van Damme and actor Chuck Zito engaged in a fistfight at a New York city bar. He still sought to expand his appeal with the low-budget Cop Land (1997) and a voice role in Antz (1998), but his $15 million plus paychecks are still only offered for more lively action roles. He has been married five times, including two marriages with his current wife Gladys Portugues. In the 1990s he had further box-office wins with a number of action movies, including Cliffhanger (1993, for which he co-wrote the screenplay), Demolition Man (1993) and Judge Dredd (1995). He has had troubles with cocaine and is also reported to have experienced bipolar disorder. He also appeared in Cobra (1986) and Daylight (1996). Van Damme has won a number of European karate championships.

His only other early successes were as John Rambo in First Blood (1982) and its sequels. His movies have earned over US$650 million worldwide, earning him a place in the action movie world along with others like Steven Seagal and Chuck Norris. He tried his hand at directing as well as writing with Rocky II, III and IV, and directed and co-wrote the sequel to Saturday Night Fever, Staying Alive. By the end of the 1990s his high-profile career had faded but he continues to star in smaller, often direct-to-video, films. However, his attempts to expand his range floundered and he was forced to return to the Rocky franchise a number of times (1979, 1982, 1985, and 1990) to pay for the flops. In most of his movies, he plays a prize fighter, policeman, or soldier. Stallone had two Academy Award nominations for Rocky. Notable films include Universal Soldier (1992), Hard Target (1993), and Timecop (1994).

His first film roles were very small, including a pornographic film, and he did not break through until he starred in Rocky (1976), a film that he wrote and sold with the rider that he would be the lead. Van Damme worked his way up to Hollywood mainstream in the 1990s, often working with acclaimed foreign directors. He studied drama at the University of Miami, after which he returned to New York and appeared in a few small Off-Broadway plays. Van Damme's appearance in Bloodsport earned him a nomination as "Worst New Star" in the 1988 Golden Raspberry Awards (he lost). Stallone was born in New York City, and attended high school in Silver Spring, Maryland, at Montgomery Blair High School. Van Damme claims he intentionally got fired so he could move on to other films. He achieved his greatest successes in a number of action films, notably the Rambo and Rocky series, in both of which he played a largely monosyllabic hero. How he left the picture is disputed: some say he quit, others say he was replaced when the character was revised.

Michael Sylvester Enzio Stallone (born July 6, 1946), usually known as simply Sylvester Stallone, is an American film actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. Wearing a heavy costume in the jungle was rough and Van Damme was unhappy with his role. Stallone's family include former charttopping singer Frank Stallone, his mother Jackie, who achieved fame in the middle 1990s as an astrologer and Sasha Stallone, who played Rocky's son in 1990's Rocky V. He was scheduled to play the part of the camouflaged monster in Predator. In fairness, many of the Mujadideen also formed the Northern Alliance who challenged the authority of the Taliban, but unfortunately their record on human rights is also open to question. His first major role came in 1985, when he played Ivan Krushensky in No Retreat, No Surrender. The actor would come to regret this in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. His Belgian background gave rise to the nickname "Muscles from Brussels".

In Rambo III Stallone's character is portrayed fighting alongside the Mujahideen, many of which later formed the Taliban in Afghanistan. Jean Claude Van Damme (born October 18, 1960), born Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg, is a Belgian-born action movie actor who's most known for martial arts films. He made a cameo appearance in the French film Taxi 3 where he spoke what appeared to be fluent French. Not all of the films in which he's appeared are in the English language. Won "Worst Actor of the Century" award at the 1999 Golden Raspberry Awards for his role in "99.5% of Everything He's Ever Done." It should be noted, however, that he had a speech impediment and was nominated for a Best Actor award for his role in Rocky at the 1976 Academy Awards.

Sylvester, the ubiquitous man in a dark suit associated with multinational corporations (World Company) and the CIA. He then became Mr. Sylvester from the United States Army during the first Gulf War (because of his role in Rambo). In the French satirical show Les Guignols de l'Info, he was depicted as Cdr.

Nicknamed "Sly".