Quotes By Patrick Swayze

I've had so many injuries.

I wanna live.

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

My work... is my legacy.

I just love to work hard.

Good-looking people turn me off. Myself included.

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

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.

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.

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

Everything is designed to help you sell out.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.