Patrick Swayze's Quotes

I wanna live.

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

I've had so many injuries.

I've never been one to run from a challenge.

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.

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.

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

My work... is my legacy.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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