Patrick Swayze Quotes

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.

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

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

I just love to work hard.

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.

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.

Everything is designed to help you sell out.

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

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

Good-looking people turn me off. Myself included.

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

Look at it! It's a once in a lifetime opportunity, man! Let me go out there and let me get one wave, just one wave before you take me in. I mean, come on man, where I am I gonna go? Cliffs on both sides! I'm not gonna paddle my way to New Zealand! Come on, compadre. Come on!

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.

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

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.

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

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

Pain don't hurt.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I thought it was all over. My lungs were filling with water and I began to black out. Then I saw an ancient warrior rise up out of the water. He said we'd make it, and we did. I believe we all have an angel watching us.

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

I took after my father.

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

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

I've had so many injuries.

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.

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

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 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.

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