Quotes By Patrick Swayze

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.

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

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.

I've had so many injuries.

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.

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.

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.

My work... is my legacy.

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.

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.