Top 100 John Travolta Quotes
#1. Tom Cruise has-we all have-the right to practice how we feel ... don't judge someone until they have tossed your salad.
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#2. Life is overwhelming. Life is not easy. Life is tough. And you need something that really works and helps you actually, not promises to help you, then fail.
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#3. You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others.
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#4. I grew up, in my childhood, with some of the greatest women performers, on stage and on screen, and even my family - my mother and my sisters. So I was very busy watching women, as a child! I have a lot of memories of great women performers
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#5. I've always thought that as long as I did the right things and had the right intentions, everything would fall into place.
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#6. I rode many bikes and motorcycles. My brother was in an accident when he was a kid and my mom forbade us to use motorcycles.
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#7. I've done so many interviews that I've gotten past the ego and the personality.
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#8. Hollywood is controlled by homosexual Jewish men who expect favors in return for sexual activity.
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#9. Autism and seizures are the least known areas of illnesses.
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#10. And now after all this time I finally figured out how to trap him ... I will become him.
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#11. I've ridden a bike since I was 18. It was the first transportation when I came to Hollywood because it was inexpensive and easy for me.
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#12. I played football in the ninth and 10th grade. I looked a lot like Joe Namath, so I think my looks got me there more than my abilities.
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#14. Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude.
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#15. Playing President Clinton (in Primary Colors) was risky and challenging. Some people thought Saturday Night Fever was risky, because no one had danced in movies for years.
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#16. It is about getting a sense of integrity about issues. That was was my enlightenment over it and knowing that I had a safe place to go to handle anything in life.
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#17. I think aerobatic flying is athletic. I don't do aerobatic flying, but I would put that in a category of a sport. I would put regular flying in the category of an art or machine-type thing.
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#18. I was suited for fame, and I mean that in the most non-egocentric way. I don't mind gearing my life towards privacy. It's my nature.
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#19. I do feel fortunate in that I am probably allowed more often to be a character actor then most actors are allowed to be, and I don't take that lightly or superficially at all. I mean, I really do appreciate it.
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#20. The Beatles meant everything to me growing up, and John was part of that. I loved Lennon's persona. He knew who he was, and he knew what he represented to a worldwide public ... I think he incited and inspired a whole group of youth to speak out and say what they felt.
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#22. The only thing I ran into is that I am a wanderlust, as far as travel and adventure. I will go off on any given moment with the family and friends to explore the world. I go around the world once a year. I go to Africa, you know, Russia, wherever ... I love it.
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#23. In my own life if I knew I was going to pass away I'd love to sit down and resolve every issue so I could go peacefully.
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#24. After nine or 10 years of being interviewed, you start wanting to team up with the reporter and get the job done.
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#25. My road trips have been to Vegas, but you know, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.
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#26. Princess Diana was a nice dancer because she had confidence. In fact, when we danced together she started to lead, and I looked her in eye and went, 'No, you have to let me lead.' So I grabbed her around the waist and we were off to the races.
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#27. There are two areas where you can't stop people misbehaving: eating and sex
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#28. I had a bike the first time I moved to L.A. I had a Honda and I got around on that. But I'd never ridden Harleys.
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#29. I am not at all computer literate in real life. I haven't yet found a reason to be. Once I find a reason why I need to be on the Internet, then I will be.
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#30. America isn't as lucky as you guys (Europeans), who for the most part have this quality of food that keeps you slim. We're over-eaters in the United States by nature, with fast food and all this kind of thing.
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#31. I love Scientology. I've been involved for 38 years, and I don't think I'd be here without it because I've had a lot of losses and different negative things that have happened over the years and it really got me through brilliantly.
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#32. I don't want to create controversy; I just have an opinion on things, and there is nothing wrong with stating your opinion if you are asked. Everyone wants that right, and because you are famous doesn't mean you have less of a right.
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#33. Even if the script's well written there's something about the life of an improvisation that resonates better than a written word, sometimes.
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#34. I try to balance independent films with commercial films, and I've done a pretty good job of it over the years.
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#35. My son was autistic, and he suffered from seizure disorder every 5 to 10 days. He would suffer a seizure that would last 45 seconds to a minute and sleep for 12 hours.
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#36. I have to believe there's some other life force out there. I don't know in what form. But we can't have all these galaxies and universes without something going on.
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#37. I wouldn't trade my career with anybody's. I'd trade a few movies with Tom Hanks - 'Apollo 13' and 'Forrest Gump' - but other than that, I love my career.
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#38. I love fun movies that also have something to say. They tend to stay with me, always.
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#39. I feel very fortunate for audiences to have been so gracious as to allow me to do pretty much any role that I felt I could do. They let me play a president. They let me play a lawyer. They let me play a hit man. They let me play a father. They let me play Howard Saint.
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#40. Good writing is good writing, but that doesn't mean you can't orchestrate it or tweak it.
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#41. Acting is a mix of luck and choice. I got lucky.
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#42. I believe in love and marriage, but not necessarily with the same person
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#43. I think my friend Tom Hanks knows me. He understands me very well. He's always had a sort of parental feeling toward me. He knows I'm a big mush ball, which is just part of my personality.
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#44. I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon.
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#45. When I was a very little boy, I lived underneath the air pattern of LaGuardia airport in New York and I watched the planes fly to their destinations. I was in love with the design of these airplanes.
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#46. I couldn't function if I weren't allowed to stretch and do really different characters where I can change the whole "beingness" of that person. That's my pleasure in acting and has been since I was a kid. That's always been my pleasure to create complete characters.
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#47. I don't believe in regrets; I believe your future is in your tomorrows.
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#48. I have a dance background. I have an athletic background.
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#49. It's easier to be responsible for the decisions that you've made yourself than for the ones that other people have made for you.
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#50. When I was 8, I got a little toy propeller plane: You could turn it on and the people disappeared from the little windows and stewardesses appeared, and it ran along the ground.
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#51. I learned early on that there are certain things you can control in the press, and things you cannot.
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#52. I've always had an innate ability to dance, but I'm not as spiffy as those cinema legends like Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire.
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#53. You know, I've never killed a man before. I mean I droped bombs on the enemy from the above, but never face to face. [thinking pause] I don't see what the big deal is - I really don't.
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#54. Money and power come as a byproduct of things well done.
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#55. Oh yeah, dancing's part of my soul. I enjoy it, it makes people happy, and it makes me happy.
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#56. My frank response to all sex questions is that there is too much significance put on them to begin with. Sex is part of human nature, and I don't know why such a big deal is made out of it.
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#57. I think, for sure, 'Saturday Night Fever' and 'Pulp Fiction' were kind of bookends for - or the pillars of - my career.
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#58. Christopher Walken was probably the most experienced dancing partner I've had in movies, because he has the same background as I do. He's from theatre, Broadway and off-Broadway, and we both shared that.
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#59. Your life starts to take shape at 30. You don't have to make excuses for who you are anymore.
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#60. My nature is happy. And all I can control is my response to input. If you come around me and tell me bad news all the time, I can say, "You know what? I don't want to hear it." If its just gossip, you know, I can choose not to hear it. And that, in effect, can control my mood.
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#61. As you get older, you have to force yourself to have new dreams. For instance, I've been flying for 37 years, but now teaching others to fly is interesting for me. Sometimes you have to find new angles on life to keep you interested, like sharing successes and inspiring and helping others.
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#62. So you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna do something really outrageous, I'm gonna tell the truth.
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#63. One of the things about the whole Harley motorcycle culture is that it's a little bit renegade.
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#64. You gotta learn to laugh, it's the way to true love.
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#65. Playing a bad guy is always a freeing experience, because you don't have the same envelope of restrictions as you have playing a good guy. Good guys restrain themselves; they kind of have their moral fiber cut out for them in varying degrees.
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#66. You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend.
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#67. I will direct one day, but I have a feeling that it will be very limited.
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#68. I probably have some sort of chocolate five times a week. There's definitely a change it does to the chemistry of the body. It's my favorite feeling. I live for it.
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#69. I love being regarded as a sex symbol, but I can't take it too seriously.
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#70. I'm willing to look my own nightmare on film, but if it endangers my life, then I'm willing to put my life before movies.
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#71. I learned early on to stay away from gossip magazines and reviews. That stuff just makes you unhappy, and I know actors that read everything that's written about them and they're miserable. You can choose what to let into your life.
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#72. There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth.
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#73. I called my son Jett and I wanted to call my daughter Qantas but my wife wouldn't let me.
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#74. You can't control the quality of projects that are coming to you, so if you get several in a row that are quality, you take them.
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#75. It's hard to make a cultural phenomenon every time.
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#76. It's the interviewee's job to know that his privacy is going to be invaded on some level. Otherwise, you are better off not doing the interview.
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#77. A lot of actors never talk to other actors about how they're doing things, or why. I think it's important to share the way you're thinking.
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#78. I'm definitely working class, and I still believe in those values. I know that losing everything would not be an unfamiliar feeling. Meaning, if you don't have it anymore, you didn't have it to begin with.
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#79. With some actors, you can tell when they're acting all by themselves, no matter who else is in the screen.
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#80. I don't recall the so-called devilish things I do. But there are considerable amounts.
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#82. I'm not big on sequels; I've done them, but I like doing little things that have their own timelessness to them, classic type things, and then you go onto something new.
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#83. The good and wonderful thing about my whole career is that I've always felt that the audience, if I do it well, will track wherever I go, whether it's President or a lawyer or bad guy or good.
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#84. If I'm androgynous, I'd say I lean toward macho-androgynous.
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#85. My kids probably stay up too late. My wife goes to bed around 3 A.M., and I follow around 7 A.M., but it works.
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#86. Scientology is one of the least homophobic religions. It's not very interested in the body at all.
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#87. Most people forget that you have to create relationships. The allure of the first years settles down, and at that moment, you better start creating it; otherwise, you're going to lose out.
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#89. You have a freedom in playing the villain. You can be a lot more out there, really. And there is a joy in that. There is a joy in kind of making a zone of psychoses.
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#90. The promise of change doesn't always mean something changes.
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#91. If you are going into show business for money and power, forget it! It won't happen. You don't go for that first.
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#92. It's difficult for me to diet, so I don't. So, I make up for it in exercise. What I am willing to eat, I have to be willing to work off. It's that simple.
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#93. I was always a character actor, basically, that sometimes looks like a leading man.
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#94. I don't think I'm very cool as a person. I'm just better than anyone else at acting cool.
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#95. I like talking about sex. Especially when I'm horny, but even when I'm not.
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#96. I told my manager, 'If we can't do the things now that we want to do, what good is the power? ... Let's test it and try to get the things done that we believe in.'
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#97. The upper echelon of the movie industry is easier to deal with and the work is much easier to accomplish because of this generosity of spirit and confidence that they instill in the group around them.
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#99. When my mother died, it sort of put a damper on things. My career didn't have the same significance or excitement. It had always been about doing well for my family - my brothers, sisters, father, mother. Then something interesting and important happened - I started doing things for me.
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#100. I've never had that concern of thinking of myself as stupid.
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