John Travolta Quotes
I think, for sure, 'Saturday Night Fever' and 'Pulp Fiction' were kind of bookends for - or the pillars of - my career.
Quotes to Explore
-
Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.
-
The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
-
The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
-
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.
-
I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
-
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.
-
I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
-
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.
-
If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
-
Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
-
I think that if you're improvising on TV, it's a great way to help the dialogue between actors and writers.
-
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.
-
Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
-
I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
-
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.
-
Bowie is just a persona. He's a singer, an entertainer. David Jones is a man I met.
-
I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.
-
As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.
-
I've always been a voracious reader.
-
Your artistry is a muscle that needs to be exercised, so if all you are doing is auditioning, you'll never get the satisfaction of fulfilling the need to play the part.
-
I've found that Hollywood's a really honest business. They don't pull any punches. They tell you exactly what you want-I want the fake breasts and the flat car and the big pool. You know, they're real up-front about it.
-
With the young generation, there are even more women than men making movies right now.
-
As a writer, you're always trying to say the best thing. You're always thinking about what's the best thing to say, and what's the hardest way to say it, and what's the best line? Sometimes the best line is the simplest line. Sometimes the best line is the line that evokes more feeling than actual wordsmithing.
-
I think, for sure, 'Saturday Night Fever' and 'Pulp Fiction' were kind of bookends for - or the pillars of - my career.
