Patrick Swayze Quotes

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

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• 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.

  Patrick Swayze

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• Good looking people turn me off. Myself included.

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

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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

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

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I’ve never been one to run from a challenge.

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

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

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Patrick Swayze (36)

Birth:	18th August, 1952
Death:	14th September, 2009
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Dancer, Lyricist, Singer

About

Patrick Wayne Swayze was an American actor, dancer and singer-songwriter. Having gained fame with appearances in films during the 1980s, Swayze became popular for playing tough guys and romantic lead males, gaining him a wide fan base with female audiences and gaining him statuses as a teen idol and sex symbol. He starred in various films including The Outsiders, Red Dawn, Dirty Dancing, Road House, Ghost, Point Break, Donnie Darko, Jump!, as well as in the television serials North and South and The Beast, his final role.

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