Top 30 John Travolta Quotes

You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend.

You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others.

I love fun movies that also have something to say. They tend to stay with me, always.

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.

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.

Oh yeah, dancing’s part of my soul. I enjoy it, it makes people happy, and it makes me happy.

Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude.

I think aerobatic flying is athletic. I don’t do aerobatic flying, but I would put that in a category of a sport. I would put regular flying in the category of an art or machine-type thing.

I think my friend Tom Hanks knows me. He understands me very well. He’s always had a sort of parental feeling toward me. He knows I’m a big mush ball, which is just part of my personality.

I was always a character actor, basically, that sometimes looks like a leading man.

Scientology is one of the least homophobic religions. It’s not very interested in the body at all.

I actually do like playing off-beat people. I think it’s more fun.

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.

So you know what I’m gonna do? I’m gonna do something really outrageous, I’m gonna tell the truth.

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.

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!

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.

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.

Acting is a mix of luck and choice. I got lucky.

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.

It’s hard to make a cultural phenomenon every time.

My kids probably stay up too late. My wife goes to bed around 3 A.M., and I follow around 7 A.M., but it works.

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.

A lot of actors never talk to other actors about how they’re doing things, or why. I think it’s important to share the way you’re thinking.

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.

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.

I have a dance background. I have an athletic background.

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.

I have to believe there’s some other life force out there. I don’t know in what form. But we can’t have all these galaxies and universes without something going on.

I don’t believe in regrets; I believe your future is in your tomorrows.