Quotes By Patrick Swayze

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

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.

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

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

Everything is designed to help you sell out.

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

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.

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

I wanna live.

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 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.

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

I just love to work hard.

Good-looking people turn me off. Myself included.

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

I dropped about 20 pounds in the blink of an eye. And then when you see it in the mirror, when all of a sudden you pull your eyes down, and the bottom of your eyes go yellow and jaundice sets in - then you know something's wrong.

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

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.

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.

I took after my father.

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

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

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

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

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.

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