Top 146 Quotes & Sayings by John Travolta - Page 2

Oh yeah, dancing's part of my soul. I enjoy it, it makes people happy, and it makes me happy.

I have fame on the level of a Marilyn Monroe or an Elvis Presley, but part of the reason I didn't go the way they did was because of my beliefs. People make judgments about Scientology, but often they don't know what they're talking about.

The good and wonderful thing about my whole career is that I've always felt that the audience, if I do it well, will track wherever I go, whether it's President or a lawyer or bad guy or good.

Having kids is something you can't always do. Kids are like lightning. You grab that lightning when you can get it.

I was always a character actor, basically, that sometimes looks like a leading man.

I was suited for fame, and I mean that in the most non-egocentric way. I don't mind gearing my life towards privacy. It's my nature.

When I was 8, I got a little toy propeller plane: You could turn it on and the people disappeared from the little windows and stewardesses appeared, and it ran along the ground.

I'm from a working-class family. We didn't have a lot, but we had the arts. You're talking to a guy who is making a living at doing what he loves doing - acting, singing and dancing. So any career ups and downs were not that significant to me; the only things that really powerfully impinged on me were my losses, and there were many in my life.

I learned early on that there are certain things you can control in the press, and things you cannot.

Let's share our abundance and make our country stronger.

Misdirection. What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes.

Playing President Clinton (in Primary Colors) was risky and challenging. Some people thought Saturday Night Fever was risky, because no one had danced in movies for years.

I've never had that concern of thinking of myself as stupid.

I don't think I'm very cool as a person. I'm just better than anyone else at acting cool.

I called my son Jett and I wanted to call my daughter Qantas, but my wife wouldn't let me.

I've always thought that as long as I did the right things and had the right intentions, everything would fall into place.

Even if the script's well written there's something about the life of an improvisation that resonates better than a written word, sometimes.

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.

You come to work knowing you're going to do good work without any doubt. You can go where you need to go and nothing is wrong and you pick the rightnesses out. If something doesn't work, you let them go, but you don't hold onto those wrongnesses. You just hold onto the rightnesses, so it's a playing field that anyone would want and feel much more comfortable with.

The promise of change doesn't always mean something changes.

America isn't as lucky as you guys (Europeans), who for the most part have this quality of food that keeps you slim. We're over-eaters in the United States by nature, with fast food and all this kind of thing.

The Beatles meant everything to me growing up, and John was part of that. I loved Lennon's persona. He knew who he was and he knew what he represented to a worldwide public... I think he incited and inspired a whole group of youth to speak out and say what they felt.

Life is overwhelming. Life is not easy. Life is tough and you need something that really works and helps you actually, not promises to help you, then fail.

I have 12 paintings of Kaufman art. He is an amazing artist.

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.

Well, I enjoy my life. You know, I think life is an art, and that one has to live it as an art. That's your choice.

If you are going into show business for money and power, forget it! It won't happen. You don't go for that first.

There are two areas where you can't stop people misbehaving: eating and sex

When all else fails, fresh tactics!

Everything is on its way to somewhere.

As you get older you have to force yourself to have new dreams.

It is about getting a sense of integrity about issues. That was was my enlightenment over it and knowing that I had a safe place to go to handle anything in life.

One of the things about the whole Harley motorcycle culture is that it's a little bit renegade.

Every day my mother had tea. My dad has his ritual cigar. They had their evening cocktail. Those rituals were done nicely, with flair and feeling.

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.

If I'm androgynous, I'd say I lean toward macho-androgynous.

There's no rule that everyone has to change.

To Americans religious freedom is sacred.

I like talking about sex. Especially when I'm horny, but even when I'm not.

My nature is happy. And all I can control is my response to input. If you come around me and tell me bad news all the time, I can say, "You know what? I don't want to hear it." If its just gossip, you know, I can choose not to hear it. And that, in effect, can control my mood.

At fifty you realize that you are no longer a kid. I ignored forty. It was like I was almost at middle age. Maybe it's the baby boomer thing. But undeniably, I am a man. I have to accept [mortality].

I decided when I was a kid that I would only go out of the house if I felt good enough to be bothered. Could I be interrupted at dinner? Am I in the mood? If I am, I go out. If I'm not, I don't! So, it's the art of deciding what the truth of your job is, and what you can and cannot handle. You can design your stresses.

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.

Hollywood is controlled by homosexual Jewish men who expect favors in return for sexual activity.

Money and power come as a byproduct of things well done.

Never say anything unless you have to.

Let's share our abundance and make our country stronger. We can encourage programs that collect and distribute excess prepared food to local organizations that are helping the hungry in our own communities. We can also support programs that supply commodities to food banks. It's all part of committing our country's wealth and resources to end childhood hunger.

The upper echelon of the movie industry is easier to deal with and the work is much easier to accomplish because of this generosity of spirit and confidence that they instill in the group around them.

In my own life if I knew I was going to pass away I'd love to sit down and resolve every issue so I could go peacefully.

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.

I don't recall the so-called devilish things I do. But there are considerable amounts.

If you're going to play a woman, you might as well play a woman that you liked, and someone sexy.

I think my friend Tom Hanks knows me. He understands me very well. He’s always had a sort of parental feeling toward me. He knows I’m a big mush ball, which is just part of my personality.

I like to fly at least once a day.

I am very healthy. Career wise, even old men get to be in movies. So as long as I am healthy, I will continue to make movies.

I probably have some sort of chocolate five times a week. There's definitely a change it does to the chemistry of the body. It's my favorite feeling. I live for it.

People really need to take time and read a book. You know? That’s my advice. You could read A New Slant on Life, you could read Dianetics. And I think if you really read it, you’ll understand it, but unless you do, you’ll speculate. And I think that’s a mistake to do that.

I've always slightly regretted not taking up Chicago.

I believe in love and marriage, but not necessarily with the same person

Christopher Walken was probably the most experienced dancing partner I've had in movies, because he has the same background as I do. He's from theatre, Broadway and off-Broadway, and we both shared that.