Top 64 Quotes & Sayings by Patrick Swayze
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
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.
I took after my father.
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.
One thing I'm not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won't live.
I had a lot of anger because I wasn't happy with the way I had been raised.
You can't be pregnant in leotards, and this is the last chance for us to get our bodies into the shape of concert dancers and capture it with the magic of film.
I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.
I got completely fed up with that Hollywood blockbuster mentality. I couldn't take it seriously any longer.
Everything is designed to help you sell out.
If I leave this Earth, I want to leave this Earth just knowing I've tried to give something back and tried to do something worthwhile with myself.
I don't know what's on the other side.
If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.
I just love to work hard.
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.
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.
I don't want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I don't want to be the Dance Dude. I don't want to be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life, it'd drive me crazy.
There's just something about dance. It's like a primal thing in all of us.
I wanna live.
When people are away from home, they do things they might not normally do.
When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.
The longer your life goes on, the more death you face.
As always, I appreciate all the love and support people have sent and continue to send my way.
I will go so far as to say probably smoking had something to do with my pancreatic cancer.
I like to believe that I've got a lot of guardian warriors sittin' on my shoulder including my dad.
Talent deserves to be honored. Hands deserve to be slapped if you do something stupid as well, but don't take it too far.
Sometimes a movie encapsulates a period or a moment in all of our lives in such a way that it never dies.
I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.
Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse.
You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.
How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.
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.
Good-looking people turn me off. Myself included.
What's powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear.
The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.
My work... is my legacy.
I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.
You know, I am a Leo. Lion is a giant part of me.
If I'm going to do television, I wanted that 'North and South' experience. I wanted something that's going to challenge me on a constant basis.
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.
It just blows me away that I am on, I don't know what generation of fans.
I'm trying to shut up and let my angels speak to me and tell me what I'm supposed to do.
I've never been one to run from a challenge.
I've had so many injuries.
Life sure has a sick sense of humor, doesn’t it?
I found that dance was key to keeping depression out of my life.
When you dance, things just go away, things don't seem so bad.
All you have to do is follow three simple rules. One, never underestimate your opponent. Expect the unexpected. Two, take it outside. Never start anything inside the bar unless it's absolutely necessary. And three, be nice.
I'm not afraid of death. I'm going home.
The steps aren’t enough. Feel the music.
If anybody had that cure out there like so many people swear to me they do, you'd be two things: you'd be very rich, and you'd be very famous. Otherwise, shut up.
My indigestion issues got gigantic and constant. And then I started thinking, I'm getting skinny. 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.
I think what creates a winner is a person who can connect with their partner - another human being.. connect with their soul
I found that dance was key to keeping depression out of my life. When you dance, things just go away, things don't seem so bad. There's no better way to take care of health than through something as joyous and beautiful as dance.
When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you're going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach you, and you make it true in your own life... It's a positive way to keep their spirit alive in the world, by keeping it alive in yourself.
Dance is the pure language of the soul - it's been with us from the very beginning.
Feel what the wave is doing, then accept its energy.
Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true.
There's no better way to take care of health than through something as joyous and beautiful as dance.
I want you to be nice...until it's time to not be nice.
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