Quotes from Patrick Swayze

Everything is designed to help you sell out.

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.

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.

I took after my father.

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

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

I've had so many injuries.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

My work... is my legacy.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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