Patrick Swayze Quotes

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

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

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• Everything is designed to help you sell out

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

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

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

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

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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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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