John Travolta Quotes

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

My kids probably stay up too late. My wife goes to bed around 3 A.M., and I follow around 7 A.M., but it works.

I actually do like playing off-beat people. I think it's more fun.

I love watching old movies, and some of the holiday-themed ones are really great. I also have a bizarre thing that I'll do: I'll turn on a foreign-language TV station, usually Spanish, and watch a whole show, riveted, even though I have no idea what anyone is saying. I don't know why I find that so addictive, but I do!

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

There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth.

As you get older, you have to force yourself to have new dreams. For instance, I've been flying for 37 years, but now teaching others to fly is interesting for me. Sometimes you have to find new angles on life to keep you interested, like sharing successes and inspiring and helping others.

I grew up, in my childhood, with some of the greatest women performers, on stage and on screen, and even my family - my mother and my sisters. So I was very busy watching women, as a child! I have a lot of memories of great women performers

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

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 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.

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

I think, for sure, 'Saturday Night Fever' and 'Pulp Fiction' were kind of bookends for - or the pillars of - my career.

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.

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

When all else fails, fresh tactics!

When I say 'yes' to a movie it's usually because, to a greater or lesser extent, it's because I'm enthusiastic about the character. How well that character ultimately comes off depends on a lot of things: your relationship with the director and so on. But at first, you're on board because you think you can do something with it.

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.

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

Princess Diana was a nice dancer because she had confidence. In fact, when we danced together she started to lead, and I looked her in eye and went, 'No, you have to let me lead.' So I grabbed her around the waist and we were off to the races.

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 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.

I am not at all computer literate in real life. I haven't yet found a reason to be. Once I find a reason why I need to be on the Internet, then I will be.

There's no rule that everyone has to change.

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.

Most people forget that you have to create relationships. The allure of the first years settles down, and at that moment, you better start creating it; otherwise, you're going to lose out.

When my mother died, it sort of put a damper on things. My career didn't have the same significance or excitement. It had always been about doing well for my family - my brothers, sisters, father, mother. Then something interesting and important happened - I started doing things for me.

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.

He lives with his creativity in high gear.

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.

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

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.

I have to believe there's some other life force out there. I don't know in what form. But we can't have all these galaxies and universes without something going on.

Never say anything unless you have to.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Everything is on its way to somewhere.

I'm realizing that for so much of my life I had an older viewpoint; I saw things as an older person. That's common among change-of-life babies. So I have this dichotomy where I'm either, like, super young or feel like I'm coming to the end of my years.

It's hard to make a cultural phenomenon every time.

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.

I love being regarded as a sex symbol, but I can't take it too seriously.

I'm a jet jockey and I've always escaped ever since I was a kid. I've always been a weekend type runaway person. Work hard, play hard type thing. It's not been a mid-life thing at all, it's been a habit because I think it changes your environment and how you feel even if it's for the day. It's a good thing.

Acting is a mix of luck and choice. I got lucky.

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.

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

I do feel fortunate in that I am probably allowed more often to be a character actor then most actors are allowed to be, and I don't take that lightly or superficially at all. I mean, I really do appreciate it.

You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others.

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

Your life starts to take shape at 30. You don't have to make excuses for who you are anymore.

I don't believe in regrets; I believe your future is in your tomorrows.

I've always thought of, of a relationship with an actor to an audience as a marriage, you know. And a story, you know. And there are ups and downs, and you work through them, and you work with them.

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

With some actors, you can tell when they're acting all by themselves, no matter who else is in the screen.

I've always slightly regretted not taking up Chicago.

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

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.

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.

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 love Scientology. I've been involved for 38 years, and I don't think I'd be here without it because I've had a lot of losses and different negative things that have happened over the years and it really got me through brilliantly.

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

I like to fly at least once a day.

I'm definitely working class, and I still believe in those values. I know that losing everything would not be an unfamiliar feeling. Meaning, if you don't have it anymore, you didn't have it to begin with.

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.

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'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.

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.

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

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

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

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

So you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna do something really outrageous, I'm gonna tell the truth.

It's easier to be responsible for the decisions that you've made yourself than for the ones that other people have made for you.

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 feel very fortunate for audiences to have been so gracious as to allow me to do pretty much any role that I felt I could do. They let me play a president. They let me play a lawyer. They let me play a hit man. They let me play a father. They let me play Howard Saint.

Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude.

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

I don't want to create controversy; I just have an opinion on things, and there is nothing wrong with stating your opinion if you are asked. Everyone wants that right, and because you are famous doesn't mean you have less of a right.

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

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 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.

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

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].

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.

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

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

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.

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 first thing I ever rode when I was a kid was a motorcycle, so I knew how to drive a motorcycle before a car.