A biography for Patrick Swayzehasn’t been written yet.
“Talent deserves to be honored. Hands deserve to be slapped if you do something stupid as well, but don't take it too far.”
“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.”
“Good-looking people turn me off. Myself included.”
“I just love to work hard.”
“When people are away from home, they do things they might not normally do.”
“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.”
“Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse.”
“The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.”
“I'm trying to shut up and let my angels speak to me and tell me what I'm supposed to do.”
“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.”
“It just blows me away that I am on, I don't know what generation of fans.”
“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.”
“Everything is designed to help you sell out.”
“My work... is my legacy.”
“The longer your life goes on, the more death you face.”
“I've never been one to run from a challenge.”
“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.”
“How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.”
“I got completely fed up with that Hollywood blockbuster mentality. I couldn't take it seriously any longer.”
“What's powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear.”