Top 100 Travolta's Quotes
#1. I was able to lean on people for favors and things to help out because their budget was so low. It was half of what John Travolta's perk package is on a film. Our whole budget was half of what his staff makes on a film.
James Woods
#2. When I was younger, I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do, but I told a lot of lies in school. I told my friends once that I was playing John Travolta's daughter in a movie. I also told people that I had this romantic affair with Jonathan Taylor Thomas over a summer.
Meaghan Rath
#3. I was at the radio station all the time and on the air all the time. I met John Travolta and a lot of the other big '70s icons. Shaun Cassidy sang 'Da Do Ron Ron' to me onstage. I thought I was a rock star; I had an all-access-pass childhood.
Amy Landecker
#4. 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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#5. I learned early on that there are certain things you can control in the press, and things you cannot.
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#6. 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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#7. 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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#8. I have a dance background. I have an athletic background.
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#9. I don't believe in regrets; I believe your future is in your tomorrows.
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#10. 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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#11. I'm realizing that for so much of my life I had an older viewpoint; I saw things as an older person. That's common among change-of-life babies. So I have this dichotomy where I'm either, like, super young or feel like I'm coming to the end of my years.
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#12. 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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#13. I grew up, like most people in my generation, watching John Travolta. I was thrilled to meet him.
Jeffrey Toobin
#14. 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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#15. 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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#16. I believe in love and marriage, but not necessarily with the same person
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#17. Acting is a mix of luck and choice. I got lucky.
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#18. Good writing is good writing, but that doesn't mean you can't orchestrate it or tweak it.
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#19. 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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#20. I love fun movies that also have something to say. They tend to stay with me, always.
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#22. Benedict Cumberbatch is not only the best name in show business, it's also the response you get when you ask John Travolta to pronounce Ben Affleck.
Neil Patrick Harris
#23. 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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#24. 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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#25. Well, I enjoy my life. You know, I think life is an art, and that one has to live it as an art. That's your choice.
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#26. I never intended to become a professional pilot. But, as I became more curious about aircraft, and, well, not being John Travolta, I realized that the only way I was ever going to fly a jet is if I got a job.
Bruce Dickinson
#27. 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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#28. It's a great privilege just to be in a film not because you're some packaging that some agent has done with the studio exec: "We need a John Travolta film."
Stephen Fry
#29. 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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#30. I once sang 'Summer Nights,' from 'Grease,' at a bar in Melbourne with John Travolta, who's a good friend of mine. He looked cool singing the part of Danny - sitting in an armchair, smoking a cigar - while I got stuck playing Sandy.
Hugh Jackman
#31. I believe L. Ron Hubbard resolved the human mind, and in resolving it he has also resolved human pain - that's what I really think has happened here.
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#32. Scientology is one of the least homophobic religions. It's not very interested in the body at all.
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#33. 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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#34. When I think of the definition of cool and when I look at people, John Travolta is really the definition of cool because, not only is he great in all his movies, but, as a person, he's just really cool.
Christina Milian
#35. At fifty you realize that you are no longer a kid. I ignored forty. It was like I was almost at middle age. Maybe it's the baby boomer thing. But undeniably, I am a man. I have to accept [mortality].
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#36. I loved the idea of Travolta sitting on the kid's swing, pining away for his girlfriend.
Randal Kleiser
#37. 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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#38. 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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#39. The most wonderful person I met was John Travolta. He's one of the ultimate movie stars of all time.
Nikki Sanderson
#40. 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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#41. It's hard to make a cultural phenomenon every time.
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#42. 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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#43. 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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#44. You gotta learn to laugh, it's the way to true love.
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#45. One of the things about the whole Harley motorcycle culture is that it's a little bit renegade.
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#46. 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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#47. I love John Travolta, who came off that Kotter show. Nobody knew he could dance or do all of those things. He is like - boom. Before he knew it, he was the next big Brando or something.
Michael Jackson
#48. Oh yeah, dancing's part of my soul. I enjoy it, it makes people happy, and it makes me happy.
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#49. Money and power come as a byproduct of things well done.
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#50. You know, you grow up with the image of John Travolta being super cool - 'Saturday Night Fever,' Brian De Palma, handsome young god ... he, in reality, is a very silly man. And I mean that in a good way. He'll walk around the set talking in little weird voices, making people laugh.
Eric Stoltz
#51. 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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#52. Autism and seizures are the least known areas of illnesses.
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#53. I think we've always been fascinated with the idea of the romantic outlaw. John Gotti could be in one instance a charismatic, kind and loving family man, and in another, deadly to his enemies. The opportunity to tell the true story of Gotti with John Travolta is a director's dream.
Joe Johnston
#54. 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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#55. We walked out of this library building downtown, just on our way to lunch, and I was walking a few steps behind Travolta, and when he opened the door, it was as if Jesus had just walked out into the commons.
Peter Jacobson
#56. Bollywood stars are versatile; they not only act, but each one has the dance skills of John Travolta in 'Saturday Night Fever.'
Christian Louboutin
#57. 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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#58. The first thing I ever rode when I was a kid was a motorcycle, so I knew how to drive a motorcycle before a car.
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#59. 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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#61. 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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#62. 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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#63. And now after all this time I finally figured out how to trap him ... I will become him.
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#64. The lawyer refused to tell me my brother's name, and my colleagues started a betting pool. The leading candidate: John Travolta. I secretly hoped for a literary descendant of Henry James - someone more talented than I: someone brilliant without even trying.
Mona Simpson
#65. 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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#66. I've always slightly regretted not taking up Chicago.
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#67. Hollywood is controlled by homosexual Jewish men who expect favors in return for sexual activity.
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#68. I've done so many interviews that I've gotten past the ego and the personality.
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#69. People really need to take time and read a book, you know, that's my advice. You could read 'A New Slant on Life,' you could read 'Dianetics.' And I think if you really read it, you'll understand it, but unless you do, you'll speculate. And I think that's a mistake to do that.
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#70. 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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#71. 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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#72. 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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#73. You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others.
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#74. 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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#75. 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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#76. There was a time when television was sort of frowned upon among people who wanted to be serious artists. John Travolta kind of exploded that. He was one of the [actors] who made that go away.
David Rasche
#77. 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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#78. 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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#79. 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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#80. I love movin'. I was observant growing up, watching Michael Jackson and John Travolta. I'd close my eyes, see the moves.
Jon Heder
#81. 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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#82. 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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#83. 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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#84. My first crush was on John Travolta in 'Grease.'
Hilary Duff
#85. 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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#86. 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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#87. There are two areas where you can't stop people misbehaving: eating and sex
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#88. I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.
Quentin Tarantino
#89. I had such a good time working with John Woo and John Travolta, and it was so professional. I want to work with people who are real professionals.
Christian Slater
#90. My road trips have been to Vegas, but you know, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.
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#91. 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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#92. I actually do like playing off-beat people. I think it's more fun.
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#93. New Jersey is a great place to live. And we have given some of the best talent to the world, from Jack Nicholson, John Travolta, to Jerry Lewis to Bon Jovi to Frank Sinatra.
Queen Latifah
#94. I've always thought of, of a relationship with an actor to an audience as a marriage, you know. And a story, you know. And there are ups and downs, and you work through them, and you work with them.
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#95. 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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#96. 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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#98. 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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#99. 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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#100. 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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