Patrick Swayze
Patrick Swayze
Patrick Wayne Swayzewas 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth18 August 1952
CityHouston, TX
CountryUnited States of America
blow fans generations
It just blows me away that I am on, I don't know what generation of fans.
goes-on faces life-going-on
The longer your life goes on, the more death you face.
lions giants knows
You know, I am a Leo. Lion is a giant part of me.
steps enough feels
The steps aren’t enough. Feel the music.
energy wave accepting
Feel what the wave is doing, then accept its energy.
swear-to-god surfing changing-your-life
Surfing's the source. Can change your life. Swear to god
cancer smoking
I will go so far as to say probably smoking had something to do with my pancreatic cancer.
dad believe warrior
I like to believe that I've got a lot of guardian warriors sittin' on my shoulder including my dad.
anger way raised
I had a lot of anger because I wasn't happy with the way I had been raised.
dance primal
There's just something about dance. It's like a primal thing in all of us.
alive chasing one-thing
One thing I'm not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won't live.
successful games trying
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.
growing-up kids redneck
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.
eye thinking yellow
My indigestion issues got gigantic and constant. And then I started thinking, I'm getting skinny. 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.