John Travolta Quotes
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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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From the time I was a kid, I had a wanderlust. I always wanted to travel, in any form - plane, train, boat, car, motorcycle. So I think that if I ever do have a mid-life crisis, I have all the toys to refer to quickly.
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I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon.
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I couldn't function if I weren't allowed to stretch and do really different characters where I can change the whole "beingness" of that person. That's my pleasure in acting and has been since I was a kid. That's always been my pleasure to create complete characters.
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It's difficult for me to diet, so I don't. So, I make up for it in exercise. What I am willing to eat, I have to be willing to work off. It's that simple.
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A lot of actors never talk to other actors about how they're doing things, or why. I think it's important to share the way you're thinking.
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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 know, I've never killed a man before. I mean I droped bombs on the enemy from the above, but never face to face. [thinking pause] I don't see what the big deal is - I really don't.
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If you're going to play a woman, you might as well play a woman that you liked, and someone sexy.
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The women I liked when I was growing up, as a little boy, were Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor, because they had these curvaceous figures, and they were erotic to me.
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I have a dance background. I have an athletic background.
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It's the interviewee's job to know that his privacy is going to be invaded on some level. Otherwise, you are better off not doing the interview.
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I don't think I'm very cool as a person. I'm just better than anyone else at acting cool.
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If I'm androgynous, I'd say I lean toward macho-androgynous.
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The promise of change doesn't always mean something changes.
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I believe L. Ron Hubbard resolved the human mind, and in resolving it he has also resolved human pain - that's what I really think has happened here.
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I like talking about sex. Especially when I'm horny, but even when I'm not.
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I feel very fortunate for audiences to have been so gracious as to allow me to do pretty much any role that I felt I could do. They let me play a president. They let me play a lawyer. They let me play a hit man. They let me play a father. They let me play Howard Saint.
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My frank response to all sex questions is that there is too much significance put on them to begin with. Sex is part of human nature, and I don't know why such a big deal is made out of it.
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Hollywood is controlled by homosexual Jewish men who expect favors in return for sexual activity.
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You gotta learn to laugh, it's the way to true love.
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There's no rule that everyone has to change.
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You have to remember everything you've created. But then comes a moment when it's all automatic pilot, where it all comes together and you don't have to think about it any more.
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I’m willing to look my own nightmare on film, but if it endangers my life, then I’m willing to put my life before movies.