Patrick Swayze Quotes
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Sometimes a movie encapsulates a period or a moment in all of our lives in such a way that it never dies.
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How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.
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I am very, very clear on how difficult it is for a young kid out there to go into the arts without taking a lot of heat from his peers.
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To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.
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I will go so far as to say probably smoking had something to do with my pancreatic cancer.
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I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.
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What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.
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When you are a pit bull, and you love what you do and you are going to continue to grow, that talent will find its way out.
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I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.
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The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.
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One thing I'm not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won't live.
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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I like to believe that I've got a lot of guardian warriors sittin' on my shoulder including my dad.
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I got completely fed up with that Hollywood blockbuster mentality. I couldn't take it seriously any longer.
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I took after my father.
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You know, I am a Leo. Lion is a giant part of me.
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The longer your life goes on, the more death you face.
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I just love to work hard.
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I've had so many injuries.
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There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff – something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.
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Everything is designed to help you sell out.
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There's just something about dance. It's like a primal thing in all of us.
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My work... is my legacy.
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I dropped about 20 pounds in the blink of an eye. And then when you see it in the mirror, when all of a sudden you pull your eyes down, and the bottom of your eyes go yellow and jaundice sets in - then you know something's wrong.