Patrick Swayze Quotes

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Patrick Swayze

Profession : Actor

Birth : August 18, 1952

When people are away from home, they do things they might not normally do.

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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.

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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.

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I've never been one to run from a challenge.

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I just love to work hard.

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I got completely fed up with that Hollywood blockbuster mentality. I couldn't take it seriously any longer.

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I took after my father.

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I wanna live.

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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.

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My work... is my legacy.

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I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.

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I don't know what's on the other side.

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Sometimes a movie encapsulates a period or a moment in all of our lives in such a way that it never dies.

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I like to believe that I've got a lot of guardian warriors sittin' on my shoulder including my dad.

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I'm trying to shut up and let my angels speak to me and tell me what I'm supposed to do.

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I will go so far as to say probably smoking had something to do with my pancreatic cancer.

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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.

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It just blows me away that I am on, I don't know what generation of fans.

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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.

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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.

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