John Travolta Quotes

Misdirection. What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes.

I probably have some sort of chocolate five times a week. There's definitely a change it does to the chemistry of the body. It's my favorite feeling. I live for it.

Princess Diana was a nice dancer because she had confidence. In fact, when we danced together she started to lead, and I looked her in eye and went, 'No, you have to let me lead.' So I grabbed her around the waist and we were off to the races.

I don't believe in regrets; I believe your future is in your tomorrows.

Hollywood is controlled by homosexual Jewish men who expect favors in return for sexual activity.

Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude.

You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others.

He lives with his creativity in high gear.

It's hard to make a cultural phenomenon every time.

People really need to take time and read a book. You know? That’s my advice. You could read A New Slant on Life, you could read Dianetics. And I think if you really read it, you’ll understand it, but unless you do, you’ll speculate. And I think that’s a mistake to do that.

Never say anything unless you have to.

I have to believe there's some other life force out there. I don't know in what form. But we can't have all these galaxies and universes without something going on.

Something can happen in your life, and you might want and need something different from your spouse. Most people forget that you have to create relationships. The allure of the first years settles down, and at that moment, you better start creating it; otherwise, you're going to lose out.

Acting is a mix of luck and choice. I got lucky.

It's easier to be responsible for the decisions that you've made yourself than for the ones that other people have made for you.

The promise of change doesn't always mean something changes.

You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend.

Every day my mother had tea. My dad has his ritual cigar. They had their evening cocktail. Those rituals were done nicely, with flair and feeling.

When all else fails, fresh tactics!

Dancing's part of my soul. I enjoy it, it makes people happy, and it makes me happy.

So you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna do something really outrageous, I'm gonna tell the truth.

Everything is on its way to somewhere.

I've always thought that as long as I did the right things and had the right intentions, everything would fall into place.

As you get older you have to force yourself to have new dreams.

There are two areas where you can't stop people misbehaving: eating and sex

I believe in love and marriage, but not necessarily with the same person

One of the things about the whole Harley motorcycle culture is that it's a little bit renegade.

Your life starts to take shape at 30. You don't have to make excuses for who you are anymore.

Money and power come as a byproduct of things well done.

You have a freedom in playing the villain. You can be a lot more out there, really. And there is a joy in that. There is a joy in kind of making a zone of psychoses.

Life is overwhelming. Life is not easy. Life is tough and you need something that really works and helps you actually, not promises to help you, then fail.

Playing a bad guy is always a freeing experience, because you don't have the same envelope of restrictions as you have playing a good guy. Good guys restrain themselves; they kind of have their moral fiber cut out for them in varying degrees.

The first thing I ever rode when I was a kid was a motorcycle, so I knew how to drive a motorcycle before a car.

For a while, I was saying 'no' way too often. I turned down 'An Officer and A Gentleman,' 'Splash' and 'Midnight Express.' I could name you tons more. I would go off and experience life instead of working - I was learning to fly jets, went on an African safari, sailed the Caribbean - which wasn't necessarily bad.

There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth.

I think, for sure, 'Saturday Night Fever' and 'Pulp Fiction' were kind of bookends for - or the pillars of - my career.

I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon.

Let's share our abundance and make our country stronger. We can encourage programs that collect and distribute excess prepared food to local organizations that are helping the hungry in our own communities. We can also support programs that supply commodities to food banks. It's all part of committing our country's wealth and resources to end childhood hunger.

I think my friend Tom Hanks knows me. He understands me very well. He’s always had a sort of parental feeling toward me. He knows I’m a big mush ball, which is just part of my personality.

If you are going into show business for money and power, forget it! It won't happen. You don't go for that first.

It is about getting a sense of integrity about issues. That was was my enlightenment over it and knowing that I had a safe place to go to handle anything in life.

You come to work knowing you're going to do good work without any doubt. You can go where you need to go and nothing is wrong and you pick the rightnesses out. If something doesn't work, you let them go, but you don't hold onto those wrongnesses. You just hold onto the rightnesses, so it's a playing field that anyone would want and feel much more comfortable with.

At fifty you realize that you are no longer a kid. I ignored forty. It was like I was almost at middle age. Maybe it's the baby boomer thing. But undeniably, I am a man. I have to accept [mortality].

If you're going to play a woman, you might as well play a woman that you liked, and someone sexy.

America isn't as lucky as you guys (Europeans), who for the most part have this quality of food that keeps you slim. We're over-eaters in the United States by nature, with fast food and all this kind of thing.

The women I liked when I was growing up, as a little boy, were Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor, because they had these curvaceous figures, and they were erotic to me.

I don't mind gearing my life towards privacy. It's my nature.

I have 12 paintings of Kaufman art. He is an amazing artist.

Well, I enjoy my life. You know, I think life is an art, and that one has to live it as an art. That's your choice.

I don't think I'm very cool as a person. I'm just better than anyone else at acting cool.