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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. "
John Travolta
Drive
Motorcycle
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" I am not at all computer literate in real life. I haven't yet found a reason to be. Once I find a reason why I need to be on the Internet, then I will be. "
John Travolta
Real Life
I Am
Internet
" 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
Who
Young
" 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
Flying
Fly
Dreams
" 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
Movies
Saying
Great
" You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others. "
John Travolta
Help
You
Help Others
" I played football in the ninth and 10th grade. I looked a lot like Joe Namath, so I think my looks got me there more than my abilities. "
John Travolta
More
Looks
Like
" I was always a character actor, basically, that sometimes looks like a leading man. "
John Travolta
Man
Looks
Sometimes
" Oh yeah, dancing's part of my soul. I enjoy it, it makes people happy, and it makes me happy. "
John Travolta
My Soul
Soul
Enjoy
" 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
Better
You
Start
" 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
Mother
Interesting
Father
" I have a dance background. I have an athletic background. "
John Travolta
Background
Dance
Athletic
" He lives with his creativity in high gear. "
John Travolta
Creativity
His
He
" 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. "
John Travolta
Doing
Done
Go
" 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
Opinion
Create
Famous
" I actually do like playing off-beat people. I think it's more fun. "
John Travolta
Fun
Like
More
" 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. "
John Travolta
My Life
Nature
Privacy
" Scientology is one of the least homophobic religions. It's not very interested in the body at all. "
John Travolta
Homophobic
Body
Interested
" I will direct one day, but I have a feeling that it will be very limited. "
John Travolta
Will
Direct
Feeling
" 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
Negative
Over
Think
" I'm willing to look my own nightmare on film, but if it endangers my life, then I'm willing to put my life before movies. "
John Travolta
Movies
My Life
Life
" 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
Good
Experience
You
" It's hard to make a cultural phenomenon every time. "
John Travolta
Cultural
Make
Hard
" I've done so many interviews that I've gotten past the ego and the personality. "
John Travolta
Ego
Done
Interviews
" 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
Meaning
Believe
Losing
" I don't mind gearing my life towards privacy. It's my nature. "
John Travolta
Mind
My Life
Nature
" 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
Life
Singing
My Life
" I wouldn't trade my career with anybody's. I'd trade a few movies with Tom Hanks - 'Apollo 13' and 'Forrest Gump' - but other than that, I love my career. "
John Travolta
Trade
Other
Than
" There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth. "
John Travolta
Along
Birth
Unwanted
" 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
Know
Way
Talking
" And now after all this time I finally figured out how to trap him... I will become him. "
John Travolta
Finally
Will
Time