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
I've always had an innate ability to dance, but I'm not as spiffy as those cinema legends like Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire.
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.
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.
He lives with his creativity in high gear.
You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend.
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.
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.
Acting is a mix of luck and choice. I got lucky.
There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth.
I will direct one day, but I have a feeling that it will be very limited.
And now after all this time I finally figured out how to trap him... I will become him.
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.
Good writing is good writing, but that doesn't mean you can't orchestrate it or tweak it.
I have a dance background. I have an athletic background.
It's hard to make a cultural phenomenon every time.
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.
So you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna do something really outrageous, I'm gonna tell the truth.
