Patrick Swayze Quotes

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 my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.

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.

Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true.

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.

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.

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

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

There's no better way to take care of health than through something as joyous and beautiful as dance.

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

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 want you to be nice...until it's time to not be nice.

How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.

Good-looking people turn me off. Myself included.

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 found that dance was key to keeping depression out of my life.

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.

I'm not afraid of death. I'm going home.

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

I think what creates a winner is a person who can connect with their partner - another human being.. connect with their soul

My work... is my legacy.

I'm trying to shut up and let my angels speak to me and tell me what I'm supposed to do.

Dance is the pure language of the soul - it's been with us from the very beginning.

I got completely fed up with that Hollywood blockbuster mentality. I couldn't take it seriously any longer.

Surfing's the source. Can change your life. Swear to god

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.

I had a lot of anger because I wasn't happy with the way I had been raised.

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

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.

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

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

I don't know what's on the other side.

I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.

I like to believe that I've got a lot of guardian warriors sittin' on my shoulder including my dad.

I will go so far as to say probably smoking had something to do with my pancreatic cancer.

Everything is designed to help you sell out.

I've never been one to run from a challenge.

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

Life sure has a sick sense of humor, doesn’t it?

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

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

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.

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.

As always, I appreciate all the love and support people have sent and continue to send my way.

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.

The steps aren’t enough. Feel the music.

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.

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