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

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 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.

- 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

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

- Patrick Swayze

I took after my father.

- Patrick Swayze

It just blows me away that I am on, I don't know what generation of fans.

- 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

I don't want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I don't want to be the Dance Dude. I don't want to be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life, it'd drive me crazy.

- Patrick Swayze

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

- Patrick Swayze

When people are away from home, they do things they might not normally do.

- Patrick Swayze

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

- Patrick Swayze

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

- Patrick Swayze

I wanna live.

- Patrick Swayze

I just love to work hard.

- Patrick Swayze

I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.

- Patrick Swayze

Everything is designed to help you sell out.

- 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

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.

- Patrick Swayze

My work... is my legacy.

- Patrick Swayze