John Travolta Quotes

A lot of actors never talk to other actors about how they're doing things, or why. I think it's important to share the way you're thinking.

I've always had an innate ability to dance, but I'm not as spiffy as those cinema legends like Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire.

You have to remember everything you've created. But then comes a moment when it's all automatic pilot, where it all comes together and you don't have to think about it any more.

I love fun movies that also have something to say. They tend to stay with me, always.

I have a dance background. I have an athletic background.

I wouldn't trade my career with anybody's. I'd trade a few movies with Tom Hanks - 'Apollo 13 and 'Forrest Gump' - but other than that, I love my career.

I rode many bikes and motorcycles. My brother was in an accident when he was a kid and my mom forbade us to use motorcycles.

I had a bike the first time I moved to L.A. I had a Honda and I got around on that. But I'd never ridden Harleys.

I've ridden a bike since I was 18. It was the first transportation when I came to Hollywood because it was inexpensive and easy for me.

My road trips have been to Vegas, but you know, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.

When I was a very little boy I lived underneath the air pattern of LaGuardia airport in New York and I watched the planes fly to their destinations. I was in love with the design of these airplanes.

I’m willing to look my own nightmare on film, but if it endangers my life, then I’m willing to put my life before movies.

Tom Cruise has-we all have-the right to practice how we feel...don't judge someone until they have tossed your salad.

It's difficult for me to diet, so I don't. So, I make up for it in exercise. What I am willing to eat, I have to be willing to work off. It's that simple.

I think what you have to do is have a box office success in every genre and then you're set for life. And fortunately, I happened to do that, so I get a myriad of offers of various sorts.

I try to balance independent films with commercial films, and I've done a pretty good job of it over the years.

After nine or 10 years of being interviewed, you start wanting to team up with the reporter and get the job done.

I'm too busy looking for the next role to do. I think about how to continue, to survive in the same vein. I like my career and my life as it is.

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

I believe L. Ron Hubbard resolved the human mind, and in resolving it he has also resolved human pain - that's what I really think has happened here.

My son was autistic, and he suffered from seizure disorder every 5 to 10 days. He would suffer a seizure that would last 45 seconds to a minute and sleep for 12 hours.

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

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

You can't control the quality of projects that are coming to you, so if you get several in a row that are quality, you take them.

I like to fly at least once a day.

To Americans religious freedom is sacred.

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

It's the interviewee's job to know that his privacy is going to be invaded on some level. Otherwise, you are better off not doing the interview.

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

There's no rule that everyone has to change.

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

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.

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

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've always slightly regretted not taking up Chicago.

And now after all this time I finally figured out how to trap him... I will become him.

You gotta learn to laugh, it's the way to true love.

I will direct one day, but I have a feeling that it will be very limited.

I told my manager, 'If we can't do the things now that we want to do, what good is the power?... Let's test it and try to get the things done that we believe in.'

I think aerobatic flying is athletic. I don't do aerobatic flying, but I would put that in a category of a sport. I would put regular flying in the category of an art or machine-type thing.

I'm not big on sequels; I've done them, but I like doing little things that have their own timelessness to them, classic type things, and then you go onto something new.

I played football in the ninth and 10th grade. I looked a lot like Joe Namath, so I think my looks got me there more than my abilities.

When I was a very little boy, I lived underneath the air pattern of LaGuardia airport in New York and I watched the planes fly to their destinations. I was in love with the design of these airplanes.