John Travolta Quotes

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John Travolta

Profession : Actor

Birth : February 18, 1954

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.

John Travolta

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.

John Travolta

You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others.

John Travolta

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.

John Travolta

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. All I have to do is execute the material enough where they buy into it. I've had the great luxury of the audiences accepting that.

John Travolta

Oh yeah, dancing's part of my soul. I enjoy it, it makes people happy, and it makes me happy.

John Travolta

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.

John Travolta

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.

John Travolta

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.

John Travolta

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.

John Travolta

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.

John Travolta

Scientology is one of the least homophobic religions. It's not very interested in the body at all.

John Travolta

There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth.

John Travolta

And now after all this time I finally figured out how to trap him... I will become him.

John Travolta

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.

John Travolta

So you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna do something really outrageous, I'm gonna tell the truth.

John Travolta

You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend.

John Travolta

Your life starts to take shape at 30. You don't have to make excuses for who you are anymore.

John Travolta

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.

John Travolta

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.

John Travolta