John Travolta Quotes
I think, for sure, 'Saturday Night Fever' and 'Pulp Fiction' were kind of bookends for - or the pillars of - my career.
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Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
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I do not support a North American Union. I disagree fundamentally with that, and I think the United States should be governing itself and not being governed by multilateral unions, the United Nations.
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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Most of the time, economic data is fairly benign. I don't wish to imply it is meaningless, but it is not a driver of stock markets. Indeed, the correlation between economic noise and how equity markets perform has been wildly overemphasized.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
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I think that if you're improvising on TV, it's a great way to help the dialogue between actors and writers.
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I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unless there's something that I really did do. I believe I'm just ordinary. And I'd like for people to think of me that way, as just a guy that tried. Wanted to be loved by other people because he loved people.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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The money I earn from films means I can help the people I want to help - you can do a lot of good if you want to.
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Bowie is just a persona. He's a singer, an entertainer. David Jones is a man I met.
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I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.
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As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.
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I had some interesting costumes... the one that I remember right offhand is Zorro when I was a lot younger. I was a big time Zorro fan. My mom helped me make it, and I remember having a big issue with the fact that she wouldn't let me carry around a real metal sword; it just had to be plastic.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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It has never been in my power to study anything, - mathematics, ethics, metaphysics, gravitation, thermodynamics, optics, chemistry, comparative anatomy, astronomy, psychology, phonetics, economics, the history of science, whist, men and women, wine, metrology, except as a study of semeiotic.
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Watch out for music. It should come with a health warning. It can be dangerous. It can make you feel so alive, so connected to the people around you, and connected to what you really are inside. And it can make you think that the world should, and could, be a much better place. And just occasionally, it can make you very, very happy.
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I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that's all I ever saw it as. A pointless rock in the river that has to be stepped on in order to get to the meaningful oasis of acting.
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I would think: Stay close to the implants! They must know something because they keep getting asked backstage!
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I think, for sure, 'Saturday Night Fever' and 'Pulp Fiction' were kind of bookends for - or the pillars of - my career.
