John Travolta Quotes
I am not at all computer literate in real life. I haven't yet found a reason to be. Once I find a reason why I need to be on the Internet, then I will be.
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I love being regarded as a sex symbol, but I can't take it too seriously.
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I think what you have to do is have a box office success in every genre and then you're set for life. And fortunately, I happened to do that, so I get a myriad of offers of various sorts.
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For a while, I was saying 'no' way too often. I turned down 'An Officer and A Gentleman,' 'Splash' and 'Midnight Express.' I could name you tons more. I would go off and experience life instead of working - I was learning to fly jets, went on an African safari, sailed the Caribbean - which wasn't necessarily bad.
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You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend.
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As you get older, you have to force yourself to have new dreams. For instance, I've been flying for 37 years, but now teaching others to fly is interesting for me. Sometimes you have to find new angles on life to keep you interested, like sharing successes and inspiring and helping others.
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Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude.
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I don't mind gearing my life towards privacy. It's my nature.
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I had a bike the first time I moved to L.A. I had a Honda and I got around on that. But I'd never ridden Harleys.
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I never in a million years thought I would be starring in Hairspray, ever. Because if you think about my past, it's been 30 years of playing a macho leading man, so when I was offered it, I said: "Why? Why me? What have I done to deserve that you think I should do this?" After much convincing, over a year and two months, I was convinced they wanted to make a great movie.
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I wouldn't trade my career with anybody's. I'd trade a few movies with Tom Hanks - 'Apollo 13 and 'Forrest Gump' - but other than that, I love my career.
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I have 12 paintings of Kaufman art. He is an amazing artist.
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Even if the script's well written there's something about the life of an improvisation that resonates better than a written word, sometimes.
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Autism and seizures are the least known areas of illnesses.
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Your life starts to take shape at 30. You don't have to make excuses for who you are anymore.
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I'm too busy looking for the next role to do. I think about how to continue, to survive in the same vein. I like my career and my life as it is.
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In my own life if I knew I was going to pass away I'd love to sit down and resolve every issue so I could go peacefully.
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I try to balance independent films with commercial films, and I've done a pretty good job of it over the years.
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I think my friend Tom Hanks knows me. He understands me very well. He’s always had a sort of parental feeling toward me. He knows I’m a big mush ball, which is just part of my personality.
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I've always had an innate ability to dance, but I'm not as spiffy as those cinema legends like Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire.
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I've always thought of, of a relationship with an actor to an audience as a marriage, you know. And a story, you know. And there are ups and downs, and you work through them, and you work with them.
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When I was a very little boy I lived underneath the air pattern of LaGuardia airport in New York and I watched the planes fly to their destinations. I was in love with the design of these airplanes.
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You have a freedom in playing the villain. You can be a lot more out there, really. And there is a joy in that. There is a joy in kind of making a zone of psychoses.
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It is about getting a sense of integrity about issues. That was was my enlightenment over it and knowing that I had a safe place to go to handle anything in life.
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I am not at all computer literate in real life. I haven't yet found a reason to be. Once I find a reason why I need to be on the Internet, then I will be.