Patrick Swayze Quotes

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Patrick Swayze

Profession : Actor

Birth : August 18, 1952

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

The longer your life goes on, the more death you face.

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How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.

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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.

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I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.

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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.

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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.

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I've had so many injuries.

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Good-looking people turn me off. Myself included.

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Talent deserves to be honored. Hands deserve to be slapped if you do something stupid as well, but don't take it too far.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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You know, I am a Leo. Lion is a giant part of me.

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As always, I appreciate all the love and support people have sent and continue to send my way.

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I had a lot of anger because I wasn't happy with the way I had been raised.

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The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

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One thing I'm not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won't live.

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There's just something about dance. It's like a primal thing in all of us.

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Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse.

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