Patrick Swayze Quotes
I got completely fed up with that Hollywood blockbuster mentality. I couldn't take it seriously any longer.
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I love working with other actors and other people - you know, stand-up - it's lonely; it's just you out there and the audience. But it's fun working with other actors. I love doing that, too.
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I grew and learned, journeyed and understood, that someone who is afraid of failing won't get anywhere, and someone who dares to do it runs the risk of failure if they don't learn, correct their mistakes, and get back up.
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My legs are nice, my lips are shapely, and my breasts are pretty. They popped up when I was 11 and they weren't small then. I was teased, but now those kids wish they had what I have!
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I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.
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I didn't get at first put into a rehab facility; I got put in a adolescent psychiatric unit for my detox.
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I got to work with legendary director Garry Marshall.
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I've got to win every race.
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My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.
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To tell you the truth, I hadn't seen any Pixar until I went to see 'Wall-E,' and I watched it and I was shocked to see how adult it was, with the setting in our lives, both present and future, and how they dealt with it... And then quite relieved to find that the one I was working on, 'Up,' how adult it was.
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I'm a really heavy sleeper. When I wake up I'm a terrible morning person.
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I'm a liberal, but I'm not biased. Seriously.
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Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.
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I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
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I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.
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A tactic used by authors of virtually every single book I've ever read that propounds a conspiracy theory is to attack an agency as being part of a conspiracy in the Kennedy assassination, but when this same agency comes up with something favorable to the author's position, the author will cite that same agency as credible support for his argument.
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My unusual beauty tip is that I often use Vaseline to take my make up off. It works great and is good for sensitive skin.
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I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.
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And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.
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I like a real beach. A crowded one, you know? People, towels, umbrellas. I hate those little private strips of sand you see up in Malibu.
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I'd love to win Paris-Roubaix.
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Given free rein, our imagination can get infinite.
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Having the right people around you all the time is important. I do take the acting seriously. But this is all fun. I look at it like smoke and mirrors. I still think it's a dream, but I ain't pinching myself yet.
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We can see that the sacramental presence of the Lord in the Eucharist is an essential gift for us and give us also the possibility to love the others and to work for the others.
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I got completely fed up with that Hollywood blockbuster mentality. I couldn't take it seriously any longer.
