Patrick Swayze Quotes

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.

Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true.

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

Good-looking people turn me off. Myself included.

Look at it! It's a once in a lifetime opportunity, man! Let me go out there and let me get one wave, just one wave before you take me in. I mean, come on man, where I am I gonna go? Cliffs on both sides! I'm not gonna paddle my way to New Zealand! Come on, compadre. Come on!

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

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

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

I found that dance was key to keeping depression out of my life.

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

I had a lot of anger because I wasn't happy with the way I had been raised.

Life sure has a sick sense of humor, doesn’t it?

Dance is the pure language of the soul - it's been with us from the very beginning.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.

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

A person who can connect with their partner, another human being who can connect with their soul − it's not just learning steps, it's about expressing something. I've found in dancing all my life that I can release something as a dancer that I can't in any other way.

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.

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 thought it was all over. My lungs were filling with water and I began to black out. Then I saw an ancient warrior rise up out of the water. He said we'd make it, and we did. I believe we all have an angel watching us.

I want you to be nice...until it's time to not be nice.

The steps aren’t enough. Feel the music.

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

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.

My work... is my legacy.

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.

I think what creates a winner is a person who can connect with their partner - another human being.. connect with their soul

When you dance, things just go away, things don't seem so bad.

The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

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

I'm not afraid of death. I'm going home.

I found that dance was key to keeping depression out of my life. When you dance, things just go away, things don't seem so bad. There's no better way to take care of health than through something as joyous and beautiful as dance.

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

When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you're going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach you, and you make it true in your own life... It's a positive way to keep their spirit alive in the world, by keeping it alive in yourself.

Feel what the wave is doing, then accept its energy.

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

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.

If anybody had that cure out there like so many people swear to me they do, you'd be two things: you'd be very rich, and you'd be very famous. Otherwise, shut up.

One thing I'm not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won't live.

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

I got completely fed up with that Hollywood blockbuster mentality. I couldn't take it seriously any longer.

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