Quotes by John Travolta - Page 3

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.
John Travolta / Actor
Parental
Personality Always Me
Ball
Friend
Feeling
Mush
My Friend
Tom
Tom Hanks
Toward
Understands
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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.
John Travolta / Actor
Allure
Otherwise
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My frank response to all sex questions is that there is too much significance put on them to begin with. Sex is part of human nature, and I don't know why such a big deal is made out of it.
John Travolta / Actor
Human Nature
Sex
Too Much
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I think aerobatic flying is athletic. I don't do aerobatic flying, but I would put that in a category of a sport. I would put regular flying in the category of an art or machine-type thing.
John Travolta / Actor
Art
Sports
Athletic
Flying
Thinking
Category
Sport
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The good and wonderful thing about my whole career is that I've always felt that the audience, if I do it well, will track wherever I go, whether it's President or a lawyer or bad guy or good.
John Travolta / Actor
Lawyer
Track
Bad Guy
Good Bad Will
Wherever
Wonderful Thing
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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.
John Travolta / Actor
Boys
Erotic
Growing Up
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When I was a very little boy I lived underneath the air pattern of LaGuardia airport in New York and I watched the planes fly to their destinations. I was in love with the design of these airplanes.
John Travolta / Actor
New York
Airplane
Boys
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I've always thought of, of a relationship with an actor to an audience as a marriage, you know. And a story, you know. And there are ups and downs, and you work through them, and you work with them.
John Travolta / Actor
Marriage
Actors
Audience
Stories
Work Relationship Marriage
Work Relationship Always
Downs
Ups
Ups And Downs
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When I was a very little boy, I lived underneath the air pattern of LaGuardia airport in New York and I watched the planes fly to their destinations. I was in love with the design of these airplanes.
John Travolta / Actor
New York
Design
Air
Planes
Airport
Boy
Watched
Destinations
Pattern
Underneath
York
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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].
John Travolta / Actor
Kids
Men
Baby
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The upper echelon of the movie industry is easier to deal with and the work is much easier to accomplish because of this generosity of spirit and confidence that they instill in the group around them.
John Travolta / Actor
Generosity
Groups
Spirit
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Christopher Walken was probably the most experienced dancing partner I've had in movies, because he has the same background as I do. He's from theatre, Broadway and off-Broadway, and we both shared that.
John Travolta / Actor
Broadway
Dancing
Theatre
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I'm definitely working class, and I still believe in those values. I know that losing everything would not be an unfamiliar feeling. Meaning, if you don't have it anymore, you didn't have it to begin with.
John Travolta / Actor
Believe
Class
Losing
Losing Everything
Unfamiliar
Begin
Anymore
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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.
John Travolta / Actor
Quality
America
Guy
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I do feel fortunate in that I am probably allowed more often to be a character actor then most actors are allowed to be, and I don't take that lightly or superficially at all. I mean, I really do appreciate it.
John Travolta / Actor
Appreciate
Character
Mean
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From the time I was a kid, I had a wanderlust. I always wanted to travel, in any form - plane, train, boat, car, motorcycle. So I think that if I ever do have a mid-life crisis, I have all the toys to refer to quickly.
John Travolta / Actor
Kids
Car
Thinking
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I learned early on to stay away from gossip magazines and reviews. That stuff just makes you unhappy, and I know actors that read everything that's written about them and they're miserable. You can choose what to let into your life.
John Travolta / Actor
Gossip
Magazines
Miserable
Reviews
Unhappy
Life Your Know
Choose
Early
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I love Scientology. I've been involved for 38 years, and I don't think I'd be here without it because I've had a lot of losses and different negative things that have happened over the years and it really got me through brilliantly.
John Travolta / Actor
Happened
Involved
Negative
Love Me Things
Brilliantly
Losses
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I don't want to create controversy; I just have an opinion on things, and there is nothing wrong with stating your opinion if you are asked. Everyone wants that right, and because you are famous doesn't mean you have less of a right.
John Travolta / Actor
Famous
Controversy
Mean
Opinion
Want
Asked
Stating
Wants
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I have fame on the level of a Marilyn Monroe or an Elvis Presley, but part of the reason I didn't go the way they did was because of my beliefs. People make judgments about Scientology, but often they don't know what they're talking about.
John Travolta / Actor
Fame
Levels
People
Talking
People Way Know
Beliefs
Elvis
Judgments
Marilyn
Monroe
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I grew up, in my childhood, with some of the greatest women performers, on stage and on screen, and even my family - my mother and my sisters. So I was very busy watching women, as a child! I have a lot of memories of great women performers
John Travolta / Actor
Children
Memories
Mother
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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.
John Travolta / Actor
Cutting
Degrees
Fiber
Good Guy
Guy
Moral
Moral Fiber
Good Experience Always
Bad Guy
Cut
Envelope
Freeing
Experience Good Bad
Guys
Restrain
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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.
John Travolta / Actor
Confidence
Diana
Eye
Nice
Princess
Danced
Grabbed
In Fact
Looked
Races
Waist
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I'm realizing that for so much of my life I had an older viewpoint; I saw things as an older person. That's common among change-of-life babies. So I have this dichotomy where I'm either, like, super young or feel like I'm coming to the end of my years.
John Travolta / Actor
Dichotomy
Realizing
Life My Life Feel
Babies
Super
Viewpoint
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The only thing I ran into is that I am a wanderlust, as far as travel and adventure. I will go off on any given moment with the family and friends to explore the world. I go around the world once a year. I go to Africa, you know, Russia, wherever... I love it.
John Travolta / Actor
Adventure
Russia
Years
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I couldn't function if I weren't allowed to stretch and do really different characters where I can change the whole "beingness" of that person. That's my pleasure in acting and has been since I was a kid. That's always been my pleasure to create complete characters.
John Travolta / Actor
Kids
Acting
Character
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The Beatles meant everything to me growing up, and John was part of that. I loved Lennon's persona. He knew who he was and he knew what he represented to a worldwide public... I think he incited and inspired a whole group of youth to speak out and say what they felt.
John Travolta / Actor
Growing Up
Speaks Out
Thinking
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I feel very fortunate for audiences to have been so gracious as to allow me to do pretty much any role that I felt I could do. They let me play a president. They let me play a lawyer. They let me play a hit man. They let me play a father. They let me play Howard Saint.
John Travolta / Actor
Men
Father
Play
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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.
John Travolta / Actor
Life
Book
Mistake
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My nature is happy. And all I can control is my response to input. If you come around me and tell me bad news all the time, I can say, "You know what? I don't want to hear it." If its just gossip, you know, I can choose not to hear it. And that, in effect, can control my mood.
John Travolta / Actor
Gossip
News
Want
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I've done so many interviews that I've gotten past the ego and the personality. I used to feel that there might be something missing, but a few years ago I realized that I was so causative over how the interview went that I was no longer concerned over the effects of the interview.
John Travolta / Actor
Missing
Past
Years
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When my mother died, it sort of put a damper on things. My career didn't have the same significance or excitement. It had always been about doing well for my family - my brothers, sisters, father, mother. Then something interesting and important happened - I started doing things for me.
John Travolta / Actor
Died
Excitement
Significance
Family Mother Always
Family Always Me
Brothers
Sisters
Family Father Me
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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.
John Travolta / Actor
Allure
Creating
Might
People
Spouse
Years
Create
Happen
Lose
Moment
Otherwise
Relationships
Start
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As you get older, you have to force yourself to have new dreams. For instance, I've been flying for 37 years, but now teaching others to fly is interesting for me. Sometimes you have to find new angles on life to keep you interested, like sharing successes and inspiring and helping others.
John Travolta / Actor
Dream
Inspiring
Flying
Force
Helping
Helping Others
Teaching
Angles
Interested
Fly
Older
Sharing
Successes
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I'm a jet jockey and I've always escaped ever since I was a kid. I've always been a weekend type runaway person. Work hard, play hard type thing. It's not been a mid-life thing at all, it's been a habit because I think it changes your environment and how you feel even if it's for the day. It's a good thing.
John Travolta / Actor
Kids
Hard Work
Weekend
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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.
John Travolta / Actor
Caribbean
Gentleman
Midnight
Names
Life Experience Learning
African
Express
Instead
Jets
Necessarily
Officer
Sailed
Splash
Tons
Turned
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I decided when I was a kid that I would only go out of the house if I felt good enough to be bothered. Could I be interrupted at dinner? Am I in the mood? If I am, I go out. If I'm not, I don't! So, it's the art of deciding what the truth of your job is, and what you can and cannot handle. You can design your stresses.
John Travolta / Actor
Art
Jobs
Stress
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I love watching old movies, and some of the holiday-themed ones are really great. I also have a bizarre thing that I'll do: I'll turn on a foreign-language TV station, usually Spanish, and watch a whole show, riveted, even though I have no idea what anyone is saying. I don't know why I find that so addictive, but I do!
John Travolta / Actor
Bizarre
Holiday
Ideas
No Idea
Tvs
Love Great Movies
Tv
Addictive
Old Movies
Spanish
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The good and wonderful thing about my whole career is that I've always felt that the audience, if I do it well, will track wherever I go, whether it's President or a lawyer or bad guy or good. All I have to do is execute the material enough where they buy into it. I've had the great luxury of the audiences accepting that.
John Travolta / Actor
Accepting
Audience
Careers
Luxury
Track
Wonderful
Good Great Enough
Good Great Always
Bad Guy
Buy
Execute
Material
Wherever
Wonderful Thing
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When I say 'yes' to a movie it's usually because, to a greater or lesser extent, it's because I'm enthusiastic about the character. How well that character ultimately comes off depends on a lot of things: your relationship with the director and so on. But at first, you're on board because you think you can do something with it.
John Travolta / Actor
Depends
Enthusiastic
Greater
Board
Extent
Lesser
Lesser Extent
Ultimately
Yes
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I'm from a working-class family. We didn't have a lot, but we had the arts. You're talking to a guy who is making a living at doing what he loves doing - acting, singing and dancing. So any career ups and downs were not that significant to me; the only things that really powerfully impinged on me were my losses, and there were many in my life.
John Travolta / Actor
Acting
Dancing
Guy
Making A Living
Significant
Singing
Talking
Working Class
Life Family Me
Arts
Career
Downs
Loves
Losses
Ups
Ups And Downs
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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.
John Travolta / Actor
Childhood
Country
Organization
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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.
John Travolta / Actor
Doubt
Knowing
Needs
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Sometimes when something really works well, it becomes a target, forty years for me, I've been a part, and I've loved every minute of it. My family has done so well with it. It's been a beautiful thing for me. I've saved lives with it and saved my own life several times. Through my loss of my son, it helped me every step of the way for two years solid, and here I am.
John Travolta / Actor
Life
Beautiful
Son
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I never in a million years thought I would be starring in Hairspray, ever. Because if you think about my past, it's been 30 years of playing a macho leading man, so when I was offered it, I said: "Why? Why me? What have I done to deserve that you think I should do this?" After much convincing, over a year and two months, I was convinced they wanted to make a great movie.
John Travolta / Actor
Men
Past
Thinking
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I'd been on a road trip right out of college, with a buddy of mine. It was uneventful. We didn't get laid. Although one time it was about 800 degrees and we were in Texas. We had shorts on and nothing else and somehow a motorcycle cop pulls up beside me and says, 'Come on, get on it, get on, go, go, go!' So I speeded up and it turns out we're in a huge state funeral. There are about 40 black Cadillacs in a row and then a green van called Mr Greenjeans, with two guys with no clothes in it.
John Travolta / Actor
College
Texas
Two
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