On March 7, 2010, MusicRooms.net posted a piece on Sly called Sylvester Stallone Blames His Career Nosedive on ‘Movie Star Syndrome.'” The piece quotes from an article about Sly that appeared in Empire magazine. Here’s a taste:
“I think the thing that got into me was Movie Star Syndrome, which is being incredibly pampered… Well, I’ve been on both sides of the fence and the softer you are, the worse you are as an actor…”
“I went into Rocky Balboa as my final film… The greatest privilege is to go out on your own terms, and that’s what I wanted with Rocky. Little did I know that afterwards it would be, ‘Hey, wanna make another Rambo?’ ”