Long before he became the most famous cinematic fighter of all time, Sylvester Stallone had to fight his own battle to survive in New York. For example, he was living in places where he literally had pizza boxes for his mattress. "I did, yeah. It was very comfortable," he said.
His jobs also included cleaning the lion cages in the Central Park Zoo. "That's a rough one, because I felt so bad for these magnificent animals," he said, "and then I felt bad because I smelled like them, you know, going home."
