Patrick Swayze Quotes

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

Winning, Giving, Keep

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

Life, Future, Long

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

Trying, Tell, Speak

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

Fight, Shoes, Growing

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

Dad, Warriors, Shoulder

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

Hope, Fear, Together

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

Worth, Stuff, Call

Good-looking people turn me off. Myself included.
Patrick Swayze

Off, Turn, Included

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

Work, Positive, Attitude

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

Time, Live, Alive

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

Life, Give, Somebody

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

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

Love, Support, Appreciate

Everything is designed to help you sell out.
Patrick Swayze

Help, Everything, Sell

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

Young, Difficult, Kid

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

Life, Career, Times

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

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

Child, Cancer, Poster

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

Life, Romantic, Crazy

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

Down, Eyes, Wrong

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

Seriously, Longer, Hollywood

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

Anger, Happy, Raised

I just love to work hard.
Patrick Swayze

Love, Work, Hard

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

Heart, Soul, Keep

I took after my father.
Patrick Swayze

Father, After, Took

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: August 18, 1952

Died: September 14, 2009

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