Top 70 Swayze Quotes
#1. Very early I learned that you have to be true to yourself about what you care about--what you believe in. If you're not, you have nothing at all. You have to listen to that bird inside that tells you what's right. Patrick Swayze
Sue Tabashnik
#2. I learned how to deal with people with elegance from Patrick Swayze.
Travis Fimmel
#3. I heard recently that I used to date Patrick Swayze.
Davey Havok
#4. My mentor in the transition from the old Gabriel Heatter and John Cameron Swayze way of doing things was David Brinkley. He brought an entirely different style to what we were doing.
Tom Brokaw
#5. He looked like he might break out into an irate merengue any minute. Patrick Swayze reincarnated.
Kate Meader
#6. Patrick Swayze is a fantastic man and an inspiration to work with. He is a fearless cowboy type and a movie icon.
Travis Fimmel
#7. No," she said. "You are not Patrick Swayze. I am not Demi Moore." She touched a switch on the little box and it started ticking. "And this sure as hell isn't pottery class.
Jim Butcher
#8. Of course, the strippers also take pains not to appear too innocent, valorous, or bookishly inclined. (In direct opposition to the Swayze Mandate of 1987, everybody puts Baby in a goddamn corner.)
Diablo Cody
#9. Do you think Patrick Swayze now goes up behind people in pottery classes and hugs them just to crack up other ghosts?
Chris Hardwick
#10. As Patrick Swayze (as Dalton, in the movie Roadhouse) once said, "Be nice, until it is time not to be nice.
Kris Wilder
#11. Patrick Swayze reminded me a lot of Gene Kelly. Patrick had that Everyman quality. Gene made dancing sort of an accessible idea for the regular guy out there.
Kenny Ortega
#14. I thought it was all over. My lungs were filling with water and I began to black out. Then I saw an ancient warrior rise up out of the water. He said we'd make it, and we did. I believe we all have an angel watching us.
Patrick Swayze
#15. When people are away from home, they do things they might not normally do.
Patrick Swayze
#16. 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.
Patrick Swayze
#17. When you dance, things just go away, things don't seem so bad.
Patrick Swayze
#19. Sometimes a movie encapsulates a period or a moment in all of our lives in such a way that it never dies.
Patrick Swayze
#20. 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.
Patrick Swayze
#21. 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.
Patrick Swayze
#22. One thing I'm not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won't live.
Patrick Swayze
#23. 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.
Patrick Swayze
#24. The longer your life goes on, the more death you face.
Patrick Swayze
#27. 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.
Patrick Swayze
#29. 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.
Patrick Swayze
#31. 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!
Patrick Swayze
#32. How do you know a partner is right for you? That has everything to do with knowing each other and practicing together until you work as one, until you begin to synchronise your movements and your thoughts and your rhythmical feel for the music with your partner.
Patsy Yvonne Helen Swayze
#33. When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
Patrick Swayze
#34. 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.
Patrick Swayze
#35. How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.
Patrick Swayze
#36. I like to believe that I've got a lot of guardian warriors sittin' on my shoulder including my dad.
Patrick Swayze
#37. I think what creates a winner is a person who can connect with their partner - another human being.. connect with their soul
Patrick Swayze
#38. Surfing's the source. Can change your life. Swear to god
Patrick Swayze
#39. I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.
Patrick Swayze
#41. I will go so far as to say probably smoking had something to do with my pancreatic cancer.
Patrick Swayze
#42. Feel what the wave is doing, then accept its energy.
Patrick Swayze
#43. I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.
Patrick Swayze
#44. The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.
Patrick Swayze
#45. 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.
Patrick Swayze
#47. As always, I appreciate all the love and support people have sent and continue to send my way.
Patrick Swayze
#48. Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse.
Patrick Swayze
#49. I had a lot of anger because I wasn't happy with the way I had been raised.
Patrick Swayze
#50. I'm trying to shut up and let my angels speak to me and tell me what I'm supposed to do.
Patrick Swayze
#51. I got completely fed up with that Hollywood blockbuster mentality. I couldn't take it seriously any longer.
Patrick Swayze
#52. 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.
Patrick Swayze
#53. 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.
Patrick Swayze
#55. Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true.
Patrick Swayze
#56. 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.
Patrick Swayze
#57. 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.
Patrick Swayze
#59. There's just something about dance ... It's like a primal thing in all of us.
Patrick Swayze
#61. All you have to do is follow three simple rules. One, never underestimate your opponent. Expect the unexpected. Two, take it outside. Never start anything inside the bar unless it's absolutely necessary. And three, be nice.
Patrick Swayze
#62. I want you to be nice ... until it's time to not be nice.
Patrick Swayze
#64. It just blows me away that I am on, I don't know what generation of fans.
Patrick Swayze
#66. Talent deserves to be honored. Hands deserve to be slapped if you do something stupid as well, but don't take it too far.
Patrick Swayze
#67. I found that dance was key to keeping depression out of my life. When you dance, things just go away, things don't seem so bad. There's no better way to take care of health than through something as joyous and beautiful as dance.
Patrick Swayze
#68. 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.
Patrick Swayze
#69. 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.
Patrick Swayze
#70. There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff - something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.
Patrick Swayze
