Patrick Swayze

“I wanna live.”

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

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

“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.”

“I took after my father.”

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

“I've had so many injuries.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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