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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

My Life, Working-Class, Singing

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.

- John Travolta

Choose, Away, About, Reviews

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

Career, Doing, Been, Significance

I believe L. Ron Hubbard resolved the human mind, and in resolving it he has also resolved human pain - that's what I really think has happened here.

- John Travolta

Mind, Think, Here, Resolving

For a while, I was saying 'no' way too often. I turned down 'An Officer and A Gentleman,' 'Splash' and 'Midnight Express.' I could name you tons more. I would go off and experience life instead of working - I was learning to fly jets, went on an African safari, sailed the Caribbean - which wasn't necessarily bad.

- John Travolta

Bad, Turned, Officer, Sailed

I've always had an innate ability to dance, but I'm not as spiffy as those cinema legends like Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire.

- John Travolta

Always, Like, Gene, Fred

My son was autistic, and he suffered from seizure disorder every 5 to 10 days. He would suffer a seizure that would last 45 seconds to a minute and sleep for 12 hours.

- John Travolta

Hours, Minute, Last, Seizure

Good writing is good writing, but that doesn't mean you can't orchestrate it or tweak it.

- John Travolta

Writing, Good Writing, Mean, Tweak

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

Nature, Mind, My Life, Suited

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

Bad, Good Guys, Cut, Restrain

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.

- John Travolta

Art, Think, I Think, Category

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

- John Travolta

Luck, Lucky, Choice, Mix

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

Love, Some, TV, Addictive

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

- John Travolta

Hard, Cultural, Phenomenon, Every Time

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, Young, Dean, None

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

Reason, Part, About, None

When I say 'yes' to a movie it's usually because, to a greater or lesser extent, it's because I'm enthusiastic about the character. How well that character ultimately comes off depends on a lot of things: your relationship with the director and so on. But at first, you're on board because you think you can do something with it.

- John Travolta

Movie, About, Extent, Lesser

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

Think, I Think, Joe, Ninth

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.

- John Travolta

Turn, Could, Plane, Ran

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.

- John Travolta

Big, I Think, Very, Mush

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

- John Travolta

Character, Actor, Always, Leading Man

I think, for sure, 'Saturday Night Fever' and 'Pulp Fiction' were kind of bookends for - or the pillars of - my career.

- John Travolta

Think, Saturday, Pillars, Pulp

Having kids is something you can't always do. Kids are like lightning. You grab that lightning when you can get it.

- John Travolta

Lightning, Always, Having, Grab

The good and wonderful thing about my whole career is that I've always felt that the audience, if I do it well, will track wherever I go, whether it's President or a lawyer or bad guy or good. All I have to do is execute the material enough where they buy into it. I've had the great luxury of the audiences accepting that.

- John Travolta

Career, Bad, Buy, Accepting

The good and wonderful thing about my whole career is that I've always felt that the audience, if I do it well, will track wherever I go, whether it's President or a lawyer or bad guy or good.

- John Travolta

Career, Bad, Bad Guy, Wherever

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

Values, Still, Working Class, Unfamiliar

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.

- John Travolta

Audience, Through, Always, Ups

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

- John Travolta

Help, Alive, Degree, Help Others

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

- John Travolta

Truth, Tell, Gonna, Outrageous

It's the interviewee's job to know that his privacy is going to be invaded on some level. Otherwise, you are better off not doing the interview.

- John Travolta

Doing, Some, Otherwise, Interview

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