Sylvester Stallone says he turned down $265,000 for Rocky while he only had $106 in the bank
"what they didn't count on is when a person hasn't had that type of money, you really don't miss it... if you haven't ridden in a Rolls Royce, you don't mind bouncing around in a Volkswagen"
"I knew that if I sold it, even for $500,000, after the money was gone I would become very bitter for having sold out"
"my one love was to at least fail on my own terms... I wanted to see if I could act"
"we had about $106 in the bank... the rent was $300... I had a pregnant wife"
"I wrote the script in about three and a half days because I could hear the wolf at the door literally... it was getting right down to scraping the old bottom of the barrel"
( Originally broadcast 23 January 1977 )