Patrick Swayze
13 quotes
Biography
"Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse."
"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."
"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."
"The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want."
"I had a lot of anger because I wasn't happy with the way I had been raised."
"How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work."
"I like to believe that I've got a lot of guardian warriors sittin' on my shoulder including my dad."
"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."
"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."
"How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work."
"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 think what creates a winner is a person who can connect with their partner - another human being.. connect with their soul"
"The longer your life goes on, the more death you face."