Patrick Swayze Quotes
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I found that dance was key to keeping depression out of my life.
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When you dance, things just go away, things don't seem so bad.
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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'm not afraid of death. I'm going home.
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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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Surfing's the source. Can change your life. Swear to god
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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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You know, I am a Leo. Lion is a giant part of me.
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A person who can connect with their partner, another human being who can connect with their soul − it's not just learning steps, it's about expressing something. I've found in dancing all my life that I can release something as a dancer that I can't in any other way.
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There's no better way to take care of health than through something as joyous and beautiful as dance.
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Feel what the wave is doing, then accept its energy.
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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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There's just something about dance. It's like a primal thing in all of us.
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Dance is the pure language of the soul - it's been with us from the very beginning.
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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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When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you're going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach you, and you make it true in your own life... It's a positive way to keep their spirit alive in the world, by keeping it alive in yourself.
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My indigestion issues got gigantic and constant. And then I started thinking, I'm getting skinny. 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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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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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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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
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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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Look at it! It's a once in a lifetime opportunity, man! Let me go out there and let me get one wave, just one wave before you take me in. I mean, come on man, where I am I gonna go? Cliffs on both sides! I'm not gonna paddle my way to New Zealand! Come on, compadre. Come on!
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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.
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Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true.
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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've never been one to run from a challenge.
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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.
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My work... is my legacy.
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The longer your life goes on, the more death you face.
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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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