Quotes by Patrick Swayze

About Patrick Swayze:

Patrick Wayne Swayze was an American actor, dancer, and singer-songwriter. Having gained fame with appearances in films during the 1980s, Swayze became popular for playing tough guys and romantic lead males, gaining him a wide fan base with female audiences, and status as a teen idol and sex symbol.
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The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

Patrick Swayze

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

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

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

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

Patrick Swayze

I just love to work hard.

Patrick Swayze

When you are a pit bull, and you love what you do and you are going to continue to grow, that talent will find its way out.

Patrick Swayze

Good-looking people turn me off. Myself included.

Patrick Swayze

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

Patrick Swayze

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

Patrick Swayze

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

Patrick Swayze

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.

Patrick Swayze

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

Patrick Swayze

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

Patrick Swayze

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

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

Patrick Swayze

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

Patrick Swayze

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

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

Patrick Swayze

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

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

Patrick Swayze

Author Bio

  • NamePatrick Swayze
  • DescriptionAmerican actor, dancer and singer-songwriter
  • AliasesPatrick Wayne Swayze
  • BornAugust 18, 1952
  • DiedSeptember 14, 2009
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionTelevision Actor; Film Actor; Singer-songwriter; Actor; Dancer