Quotes By Patrick Swayze

I don't know what's on the other side.

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

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

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 just love to work hard.

Good-looking people turn me off. Myself included.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

I took after my father.

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

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.

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

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

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.

I've had so many injuries.

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.