Sylvester Stallone, 61 years young, has admitted he used human growth hormone to get totally jacked for the new Rocky and Rambo movies. (And here I figured it was all push-ups and egg whites!) As he tells Time Magazine, HGH ain’t no thang:

“HGH [human growth hormone] is nothing. Anyone who calls it a steroid is grossly misinformed,” he says. “Testosterone to me is so important for a sense of well-being when you get older. Everyone over 40 years old would be wise to investigate it because it increases the quality of your life. Mark my words. In 10 years it will be over the counter.”

What interviewer Joel Stein forgot to ask — or, more likely, didn’t know about because he didn’t do any research because he’s Joel Stein — is how Stallone reconciles this attitude with his apology to an Australian court in May 2007 for importing HGH into the country:

“I made a terrible mistake, not because I was attempting to deceive anyone but I was simply ignorant to your official rules,” Stallone said in a letter to Sydney’s Local Court. “I feel terrible that my breach of the rules has set a poor example to members of the public, whose opinion I cherish dearly.”

This was after he threw four vials of the stuff off the balcony of his hotel room when Australian customs officials came to search it. So he knew their official rules well enough, huh?

According to Stallone’s lawyer, he takes HGH for an unspecified medical condition. Yes, it’s a terrible disease called Still Trying to Play Rocky and Rambo at 60 Syndrome. It’s so rare, there’s only been one recorded case of it.

Well, Stallone pleaded guilty and paid a $3,000 fine, so now he doesn’t have to pretend he’s sorry anymore. When you’re pushed, lyin’s as easy as breathin’…

(Hat tip to Sal Marinello, who also points out another of Stallone’s sins: Selling his own line of nutritional supplements that are supposed to give you a body like his. Yeah, just add HGH!)