The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

Good looking people turn me off. Myself included.

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

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.

If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.

There's just something about dance. It's like a primal thing in all of us.

The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

As always, I appreciate all the love and support people have sent and continue to send my way.

Good-looking people turn me off. Myself included.

How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.

I got completely fed up with that Hollywood blockbuster mentality. I couldn't take it seriously any longer.

I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.

I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.

I like to believe that I've got a lot of guardian warriors sittin' on my shoulder including my dad.

I'm trying to shut up and let my angels speak to me and tell me what I'm supposed to do.

I've had so many injuries.

If I leave this Earth, I want to leave this Earth just knowing I've tried to give something back and tried to do something worthwhile with myself.

My work... is my legacy.

One thing I'm not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won't live.

Talent deserves to be honored. Hands deserve to be slapped if you do something stupid as well, but don't take it too far.

The longer your life goes on, the more death you face.

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.

To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.

Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse.

What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.

What's powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear.

When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.

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.

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.

You know, I am a Leo. Lion is a giant part of me.

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

If it came to saving the life of one priest or sacrificing the life of an entire congregation, the church would save the life of the priest. Which is backwards, of course.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

You have choices to make about what you do with the rest of your life.

From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.

I want to have babies one day but not right now. When I do it I want to do it really well. I want it to be my best project in life.

Any judge who allows an adulterer with a live-in girlfriend to terminate the life of his wife should be impeached.

I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.

The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.

My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more.

I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.