Quotes By Patrick Swayze

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

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.

My work... is my legacy.

One thing I'm not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won't live.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Everything is designed to help you sell out.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

I wanna live.

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

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

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

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

I just love to work hard.

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