Patrick Swayze Quotes Page 2

“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.”

“It just blows me away that I am on, I don't know what generation of fans.”

“Life sure has a sick sense of humor, doesn’t 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.”

“Sometimes a movie encapsulates a period or a moment in all of our lives in such a way that it never dies.”

“Talent deserves to be honored. Hands deserve to be slapped if you do something stupid as well, but don't take it too far.”

“The longer your life goes on, the more death you face.”

“The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.”

“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.”

“There's just something about dance. It's like a primal thing in all of us.”

“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.”

“Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse.”

“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.”

“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.”

“When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.”

“When people are away from home, they do things they might not normally do.”

“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.”

“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.”

“When you dance, things just go away, things don't seem so bad.”

“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.”

“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.”

“You know, I am a Leo. Lion is a giant part of me.”

“Feel what the wave is doing, then accept its energy.”

“My work... is my legacy.”