| International Standard Book Number |
9780063443914 (hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
0063443910 (hardcover)
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| Personal Name |
Stallone, Sylvester, author.
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| Title Statement |
The steps : a memoir / Sylvester Stallone.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
293 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 24 cm.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Step zero: Spain. The fortune teller -- Step one: New York. Back in the kitchen -- Home unsweet home -- Male pattern baldness -- Lions in cages -- Getting ready for failure -- Fight or flight -- My buddies, the pigeons -- Impatience is a virtue -- Sink or swim -- You're not intimidating enough -- School is what you don't make it -- "But you hung in there" -- "Can you be tough?" -- "The Vatican of words" -- A home to write in -- Keeping it in gear -- Horses -- The Lords of Flatbush -- Buy me that ring! -- The Wild West -- The road trip -- Step two: Los Angeles. "Seriously, don't waste your time" -- Wedlock and headlock -- Surviving the snake pit -- Step three: Rocky. "I don't like him" -- "The studio won't put up a friggin' penny for an unknown" -- Do or die, Sly -- "My sister hits harder than that!" -- "She's perfection!" -- The gazelle and the turtle -- motherly love -- The blue hat -- The steps -- Pull the plug -- The fight within the fight -- "Adrian, where's your hat?" -- To all the Rockys -- The final step: Philadelphia. Epilogue -- Acknowledgments.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"In the fifty years since Sylvester Stallone ran up the steps of the Philadelphia Art Museum, he and those steps have become symbols of resilience and determination, and have inspired millions from all over the world to pursue their dreams. In The Steps, Stallone recounts how he pursued his own dreams. A culmination of decades of reflection, Stallone shares where he came from -- a difficult birth, an even more difficult childhood, years of struggle in school being misunderstood -- and he explains how the real story of a successful life is built by facing, embracing, and ultimately overcoming our challenges. It's found in the distances we are willing to go and the steps we must take to get from where we are to where we want to go. In a narrative framed between his arrival in New York City in 1969 and the triumph of Rocky at the 1977 Academy Awards, Stallone weaves a vivid and propulsive portrait of struggle, subsistence, and ultimately success. He writes of his early days and later years, too, and the persistence, creativity, and resilience that led not only to the creation of Rocky but to a career filled with remarkably iconic roles. The Steps is a testament to Stallone's extraordinary life and a profound meditation on the importance of vision and willpower and hard work"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Stallone, Sylvester.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Motion picture actors and actresses United States Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Actors United States Biography.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Memoirs.
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