Quotes By Patrick Swayze
Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse.
Patrick Swayze
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.
Patrick Swayze
Talent deserves to be honored. Hands deserve to be slapped if you do something stupid as well, but don't take it too far.
Patrick Swayze
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.
Patrick Swayze
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.
Patrick Swayze
One thing I'm not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won't live.
Patrick Swayze
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.
Patrick Swayze
How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.
Patrick Swayze
I got completely fed up with that Hollywood blockbuster mentality. I couldn't take it seriously any longer.
Patrick Swayze
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.
Patrick Swayze
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.
Patrick Swayze
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.
Patrick Swayze
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.
Patrick Swayze
I will go so far as to say probably smoking had something to do with my pancreatic cancer.
Patrick Swayze
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.
Patrick Swayze
I'm trying to shut up and let my angels speak to me and tell me what I'm supposed to do.
Patrick Swayze
Sometimes a movie encapsulates a period or a moment in all of our lives in such a way that it never dies.
Patrick Swayze