Quotes from John Travolta

It's easier to be responsible for the decisions that you've made yourself than for the ones that other people have made for you.

With some actors, you can tell when they're acting all by themselves, no matter who else is in the screen.

I have a dance background. I have an athletic background.

Princess Diana was a nice dancer because she had confidence. In fact, when we danced together she started to lead, and I looked her in eye and went, 'No, you have to let me lead.' So I grabbed her around the waist and we were off to the races.

My son was autistic, and he suffered from seizure disorder every 5 to 10 days. He would suffer a seizure that would last 45 seconds to a minute and sleep for 12 hours.

I was suited for fame, and I mean that in the most non-egocentric way. I don't mind gearing my life towards privacy. It's my nature.

I've done so many interviews that I've gotten past the ego and the personality.

At fifty you realize that you are no longer a kid. I ignored forty. It was like I was almost at middle age. Maybe it's the baby boomer thing. But undeniably, I am a man. I have to accept [mortality].

You know, I've never killed a man before. I mean I droped bombs on the enemy from the above, but never face to face. [thinking pause] I don't see what the big deal is - I really don't.

I am very healthy. Career wise, even old men get to be in movies. So as long as I am healthy, I will continue to make movies.

I was always a character actor, basically, that sometimes looks like a leading man.

Money and power come as a byproduct of things well done.

Every day my mother had tea. My dad has his ritual cigar. They had their evening cocktail. Those rituals were done nicely, with flair and feeling.

Good writing is good writing, but that doesn't mean you can't orchestrate it or tweak it.

I try to balance independent films with commercial films, and I've done a pretty good job of it over the years.

I love watching old movies, and some of the holiday-themed ones are really great. I also have a bizarre thing that I'll do: I'll turn on a foreign-language TV station, usually Spanish, and watch a whole show, riveted, even though I have no idea what anyone is saying. I don't know why I find that so addictive, but I do!

I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon.

I love being regarded as a sex symbol, but I can't take it too seriously.

If you are going into show business for money and power, forget it! It won't happen. You don't go for that first.

I told my manager, 'If we can't do the things now that we want to do, what good is the power?... Let's test it and try to get the things done that we believe in.'

As you get older, you have to force yourself to have new dreams. For instance, I've been flying for 37 years, but now teaching others to fly is interesting for me. Sometimes you have to find new angles on life to keep you interested, like sharing successes and inspiring and helping others.

I have to believe there's some other life force out there. I don't know in what form. But we can't have all these galaxies and universes without something going on.

It's the interviewee's job to know that his privacy is going to be invaded on some level. Otherwise, you are better off not doing the interview.

Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude.