1. Every day my mother drank tea. My dad has his ritual cigarette. They had his nightly cocktail party. Those rituals were done very well, with style and feeling. ~ John Travolta
2. You feel alive to the extent that you feel that you can help others. ~ John Travolta
3. I was always a character actor, basically, who sometimes seems like a leading man. ~ John Travolta
4. The good and wonderful thing about my entire career is that I’ve always felt that the audience, if I do it right, will follow wherever I go, whether it’s president, lawyer, bad or good. ~ John Travolta
5. I have no computer skills in real life. I still haven’t found a reason to be. Once I find a reason why I need to be on the internet, I will be. ~ John Travolta
6. Oh yes, dancing is part of my soul. I enjoy it, it makes people happy and it makes me happy. ~ John Travolta
7. When I was 8 years old, I got a little toy propeller plane: you could turn it on and people disappeared from the little windows and flight attendants appeared, and it ran across the floor. ~ John Travolta
8. As a very young child, I lived under the air pattern of New York’s LaGuardia Airport and watched planes fly to their destinations. He was in love with the design of these planes. ~ John Travolta
9. I was primed for fame, and I mean that in the most unselfish way. ~ John Travolta
10. Having children is something you can’t always do. Children are like lightning. You grab that beam when you can get it. ~ John Travolta
11. I am definitely working class, and I still believe in those values. I know that losing everything would not be an unknown feeling. That is, if you no longer have it, you didn’t have it to begin with. ~ John Travolta
12. It is the respondent’s job to know that his or her privacy will be invaded on some level. Otherwise, it is better not to do the interview. ~ John Travolta
13. People make judgments about Scientology, but often don’t know what they’re talking about. ~ John Travolta
14. I am willing to see my own nightmare on film, but if it endangers my life, then I am willing to put my life before the movies. ~ John Travolta
15. I have done so many interviews that I have overcome ego and personality. ~ John Travolta
16. With some actors, you can tell when they’re acting alone, no matter who else is on the screen. ~ John Travolta
17. Many actors never talk to other actors about how they’re doing things, or why. I think it is important to share your way of thinking. ~ John Travolta
18. I played soccer in the ninth and tenth grade. I looked a lot like Joe Namath, so I think my looks pushed me beyond my abilities. ~ John Travolta
19. I can’t control the quality of the projects that come my way, so if I get several quality ones in a row, I take them. ~ John Travolta
20. In fact, I like to play people off the beat. I think it’s more fun. ~ John Travolta
21. I’ve always thought of a relationship with an actor for 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
22. I wouldn’t trade my career with anyone’s. I would trade some movies with Tom Hanks – ‘Apollo 13’ and ‘Forrest Gump’ – but other than that, I love my career. ~ John Travolta
23. I’m not big on sequels; I’ve done them, but I like to do little things that have their own timelessness, classic type things, and then you go to something new. ~ John Travolta
24. I love funny movies that also have something to say. They tend to stay with me, always. ~ John Travolta
25. My children probably stay up too late. My wife goes to bed at 3 a.m. and i follow her around 7am but she works. ~ John Travolta
26. I believe that L. Ron Hubbard resolved the human mind, and in resolving it he also resolved human pain, that’s what I really believe happened here. ~ John Travolta
27. My son was autistic and had a seizure disorder every 5-10 days. He would have a seizure that would last between 45 seconds and a minute and sleep for 12 hours. ~ John Travolta
28. Scientology is one of the least homophobic religions. He is not very interested in the body at all. ~ John Travolta
29. Autism and seizures are the least well known areas of disease. ~ John Travolta
30. I’ve always had an innate ability to dance, but I’m not as graceful as those movie legends like Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire. ~ John Travolta
31. I have a dance background. I have an athletic background. ~ John Travolta
32. I was thinking about James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon that survives. I would like to be a living icon. ~ John Travolta
33. It is difficult to make a cultural phenomenon every time. ~ John Travolta
34. Live with your creativity in overdrive. ~ John Travolta
35. I will direct one day, but I have the feeling that it will be very limited. ~ John Travolta
36. I have to believe that there is another life force out there. I don’t know how. But we can’t have all these galaxies and universes without something happening. ~ John Travolta
37. So you know what I’m going to do? I’m going to do something really outrageous, I’m going to tell the truth. ~ John Travolta
38. Dancing is part of my soul. I enjoy it, it makes people happy and it makes me happy. ~ John Travolta
39. Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you’re dealing with the same magnitude. ~ John Travolta
40. It is easier to be responsible for the decisions you have made for yourself than for those that other people have made for you. ~ John Travolta
41. I love being considered a sex symbol, but I can’t take it too seriously. ~ John Travolta
42. I don’t mind directing my life towards privacy. Is my nature. ~ John Travolta
43. Your life begins to take shape at 30. You no longer have to make excuses for who you are. ~ John Travolta
44. Good writing is good, but that doesn’t mean you can’t orchestrate or tweak it. ~ John Travolta
45. You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend. ~ John Travolta
46. I think my friend Tom Hanks knows me. He understands me very well. He’s always had a kind of fatherly feeling towards me. He knows that I’m a big ball of moss, that it’s just part of my personality. ~ John Travolta
47. Most people forget that you have to build relationships. The charm of the early years sets in, and at that point, you’d better start creating it; otherwise, you are going to lose. ~ John Travolta
48. I think aerobatic flying is athletic. I don’t do aerobatic flying, but I would put it in a sport category. I would put regular flight in the art or machine category. ~ John Travolta
49. And now, after all this time, I finally figured out how to catch him… I’ll become him. ~ John Travolta
50. The first thing I rode as a child was a motorcycle, so I knew how to ride a motorcycle before I knew a car. ~ John Travolta
51. I think for sure ‘Saturday Night Fever’ and ‘Pulp Fiction’ were kind of the bookends for, or pillars of, my career. ~ John Travolta
52. I don’t believe in regrets; I believe your future is in your tomorrow. ~ John Travolta
53. Acting is a mixture of luck and choice. I was lucky. ~ John Travolta
54. There are unwanted emotions and pain that accompany any birth. ~ John Travolta
55. I am from a working-class family. We didn’t have much, but we had the arts. You’re talking to a guy who makes a living doing what he loves to do: acting, singing, and dancing. So the ups and downs of my career weren’t that significant to me; The only things that really affected me powerfully were my losses, and there were many in my life. ~ John Travolta
56. Playing a bad boy is always a liberating experience, because you don’t have the same limit of restrictions as a good boy. The good are content; they have their moral fiber cut for them to varying degrees. ~ John Travolta
57. As you get older, you must force yourself to have new dreams. For example, I have been flying for 37 years, but now teaching others to fly is interesting to me. Sometimes you have to find new angles on life to stay interested, like sharing successes and inspiring and helping others. ~ John Travolta
58. Early on I learned to stay away from gossip magazines and reviews. That makes you unhappy, and I know actors who read everything that is written about them and who are miserable. You can choose what to leave in your life. ~ John Travolta
59. All I have to do is perform the material well enough for them to buy it. I have had the great luxury of being accepted by the public. ~ John Travolta
60. Princess Diana was a good dancer because she was confident. In fact, when we danced together, she started to lead, and I looked into her eyes and said, ‘No, you have to let me lead.’ So I grabbed her around the waist and off we went to the races. ~ John Travolta
61. For a while, I said “no” too often. I turned down ‘An Officer and a Gentleman’, ‘Splash’ and ‘Midnight Express’. I could name you tons more. I would go and experience life instead of working: I was learning to fly planes, I went on an African safari, I sailed in the Caribbean, which wasn’t necessarily a bad thing. ~ John Travolta
62. I am realizing that for much of my life I had an older point of view; I saw things as an older person. That’s common among life changing babies. So I have this dichotomy where I’m super young or I feel like I’m coming to the end of my years. ~ John Travolta
63. When all else fails, new tactics! ~ John Travolta
64. When I say ‘yes’ to a movie, it’s usually because, to a greater or lesser extent, I’m excited about the character. The end result of that character depends on many things: your relationship with the director, etc. But at first, you’re on board because you think you can do something with it. ~ John Travolta
65. I don’t want to create controversy; I only have an opinion on things, and there’s nothing wrong with expressing your opinion if you’re asked to. Everyone wants that right, and just because you’re famous doesn’t mean you’re less entitled. ~ John Travolta
66. When my mother died, she somehow messed things up. My career didn’t have the same meaning or excitement. It was always about doing well for my family: my brothers, sisters, father, mother. Then something interesting and important happened: I started doing things for myself. ~ John Travolta
67. I love Scientology. I’ve been involved for 38 years, and I don’t think I’d be here without her because I’ve had a lot of losses and different negative things that have happened over the years and she really helped me shine. ~ John Travolta
68. I love watching old movies, and some of the Christmas-themed ones are really great. I also have a weird thing to do: I turn on a foreign language TV station, usually Spanish, and watch a whole, fascinating show, even though I have no idea what someone is saying. I don’t know why I find it so addictive, but I know! ~ John Travolta
69. 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 don’t know what they’re talking about. ~ John Travolta
70. Like it or not, gangsters are human beings, and not just monsters. I find it interesting to explore his humanity. Gotti had a very strict moral code. Also, unlike previous kingpins like Capone or Dillinger, he cared a lot about family and community. ~ John Travolta
71. Actors have to do many things that we don’t feel comfortable with. Do you think when I did ‘Pulp Fiction’ I felt comfortable shooting someone in the head? ~ John Travolta
72. Are you asking me if there are gangsters in Hollywood? Of course there are. Gotti’s son John Junior has spent many years trying to get this movie off the ground, and he’s told me a lot of stories about the kind of mobster behavior he encountered in the process. ~ John Travolta
73. What can I say? I feel that I contributed to change the history of cinema. ~ John Travolta
74. I continue to dance, but not like before. There was a time when even the noise of the washing machine made me want to move. ~ John Travolta
75. If I wanted to lose weight, the first thing I would do would be to sign up for dance lessons. You use every part of your body and it’s more fun than jogging. ~ John Travolta
76. In New York one only survives if they are able to act, or dance, or sing. I knew how to do everything, so it was three times easier for me to find my destination. ~ John Travolta
77. My true vocation was to be a pilot, but studying was terrible for me. In the end, yes, I have managed to learn to fly 26 different types of planes. ~ John Travolta
78. Flying is the closest thing to a spiritual experience we can have. ~ John Travolta
79. From the moment I met her, I was drawn to her. We were like two maniacs chatting all the time on the set of Bubble and after a month, romance started. (Talking about Diana Hyland) ~ John Travolta
80. The strangest thing is that before I met her I always thought that I would not have any successful love relationship. ~ John Travolta
