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.

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

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.

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.

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

Talent deserves to be honored. Hands deserve to be slapped if you do something stupid as well, but don’t take it too far.

Sometimes a movie encapsulates a period or a moment in all of our lives in such a way that it never dies.

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

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 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’ve never been one to run from a challenge.

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

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