“When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you're going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying t...”
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American actor, singer and dancer (1952–2009)
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“When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you're going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying t...”
“The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.”
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“I am very, very clear on how difficult it is for a young kid out there to go into the arts without taking a lot of heat from his peers.”
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“I dropped about 20 pounds in the blink of an eye. And then when you see it in the mirror, when all of a sudden you pull your eyes down, and the bottom of your eyes go yellow and jaundice set...”
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“I got completely fed up with that Hollywood blockbuster mentality. I couldn't take it seriously any longer.”
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“When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.”
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“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....”
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“I like to believe that I've got a lot of guardian warriors sittin' on my shoulder including my dad.”
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“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 n...”
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“I don't want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I don't want to be the Dance Dude. I don't want to be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life, it'd drive me crazy.”
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“You know, I am a Leo. Lion is a giant part of me.”
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“The longer your life goes on, the more death you face.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.”
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“I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.”
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“There's just something about dance. It's like a primal thing in all of us.”
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“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.”
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“Talent deserves to be honored. Hands deserve to be slapped if you do something stupid as well, but don't take it too far.”
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