Best Patrick Swayze Quotes & Sayings

Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true. — Patrick Swayze

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

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

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

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

Patrick Swayze reminded me a lot of Gene Kelly. Patrick had that Everyman quality. Gene made dancing sort of an accessible idea for the regular guy out there. — Kenny Ortega

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

When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you're going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach you, and you make it true in your own life ... it's a positive way to keep their spirit alive in the world, by keeping it alive in yourself. — Patrick Swayze

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

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

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

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. — Patrick Swayze

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

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

I've had so many injuries. — Patrick Swayze

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. — Patrick Swayze

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

I just love to work hard. — Patrick Swayze

The steps aren't enough. Feel the music. — Patrick Swayze

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

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. — Patrick Swayze

He looked like he might break out into an irate merengue any minute. Patrick Swayze reincarnated. — Kate Meader

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

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. — Patrick Swayze

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

Patrick Swayze is a fantastic man and an inspiration to work with. He is a fearless cowboy type and a movie icon. — Travis Fimmel

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

Feel what the wave is doing, then accept its energy. — Patrick Swayze

Do you think Patrick Swayze now goes up behind people in pottery classes and hugs them just to crack up other ghosts? — Chris Hardwick

Very early I learned that you have to be true to yourself about what you care about--what you believe in. If you're not, you have nothing at all. You have to listen to that bird inside that tells you what's right. Patrick Swayze — Sue Tabashnik