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" 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. "
John Travolta
Living
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" 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. "
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" When I was 8, I got a little toy propeller plane: You could turn it on and the people disappeared from the little windows and stewardesses appeared, and it ran along the ground. "
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" I'm not big on sequels; I've done them, but I like doing little things that have their own timelessness to them, classic type things, and then you go onto something new. "
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" And now after all this time I finally figured out how to trap him... I will become him. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't mind gearing my life towards privacy. It's my nature. "
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" 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. "
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" So you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna do something really outrageous, I'm gonna tell the truth. "
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" I actually do like playing off-beat people. I think it's more fun. "
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" I think, for sure, 'Saturday Night Fever' and 'Pulp Fiction' were kind of bookends for - or the pillars of - my career. "
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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. "
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" Good writing is good writing, but that doesn't mean you can't orchestrate it or tweak it. "
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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. "
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" I was suited for fame, and I mean that in the most non-egocentric way. I don't mind gearing my life towards privacy. It's my nature. "
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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. "
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" Having kids is something you can't always do. Kids are like lightning. You grab that lightning when you can get it. "
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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. "
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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. "
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" There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth. "
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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. "
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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. "
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" With some actors, you can tell when they're acting all by themselves, no matter who else is in the screen. "
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