Latest John Travolta Quotes from Interviews

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• It's difficult for me to diet, so I don't. So, I make up for it in exercise. What I am willing to eat, I have to be willing to work off. It's that simple.

  John Travolta

  Exercise, Simple, Difficult

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

• I couldn't function if I weren't allowed to stretch and do really different characters where I can change the whole "beingness" of that person. That's my pleasure in acting and has been since I was a kid. That's always been my pleasure to create complete characters.

  John Travolta

  Character, Kids, Acting

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

• I do feel fortunate in that I am probably allowed more often to be a character actor then most actors are allowed to be, and I don't take that lightly or superficially at all. I mean, I really do appreciate it.

  John Travolta

  Character, Mean, Appreciate

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

• At fifty you realize that you are no longer a kid. I ignored forty. It was like I was almost at middle age. Maybe it's the baby boomer thing. But undeniably, I am a man. I have to accept [mortality].

  John Travolta

  Baby, Kids, Men

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

• I feel very fortunate for audiences to have been so gracious as to allow me to do pretty much any role that I felt I could do. They let me play a president. They let me play a lawyer. They let me play a hit man. They let me play a father. They let me play Howard Saint.

  John Travolta

  Father, Men, Play

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

• My nature is happy. And all I can control is my response to input. If you come around me and tell me bad news all the time, I can say, "You know what? I don't want to hear it." If its just gossip, you know, I can choose not to hear it. And that, in effect, can control my mood.

  John Travolta

  Gossip, News, Want

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

• I am very healthy. Career wise, even old men get to be in movies. So as long as I am healthy, I will continue to make movies.

  John Travolta

  Wise, Men, Careers

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

• I learned early on that there are certain things you can control in the press, and things you cannot.

  John Travolta

  Certain, Things You Can Control, Presses

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

• I decided when I was a kid that I would only go out of the house if I felt good enough to be bothered. Could I be interrupted at dinner? Am I in the mood? If I am, I go out. If I'm not, I don't! So, it's the art of deciding what the truth of your job is, and what you can and cannot handle. You can design your stresses.

  John Travolta

  Art, Jobs, Stress

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

• If you are going into show business for money and power, forget it! It won't happen. You don't go for that first.

  John Travolta

  Firsts, Forget, Money And Power

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

• Money and power come as a byproduct of things well done.

  John Travolta

  Done, Money And Power, Wells

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

• You have a freedom in playing the villain. You can be a lot more out there, really. And there is a joy in that. There is a joy in kind of making a zone of psychoses.

  John Travolta

  Psychosis, Joy, Kind

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

• The upper echelon of the movie industry is easier to deal with and the work is much easier to accomplish because of this generosity of spirit and confidence that they instill in the group around them.

  John Travolta

  Generosity, Groups, Spirit

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

• You come to work knowing you're going to do good work without any doubt. You can go where you need to go and nothing is wrong and you pick the rightnesses out. If something doesn't work, you let them go, but you don't hold onto those wrongnesses. You just hold onto the rightnesses, so it's a playing field that anyone would want and feel much more comfortable with.

  John Travolta

  Knowing, Doubt, Needs

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

• I like talking about sex. Especially when I'm horny, but even when I'm not.

  John Travolta

  Sex, Talking, Horny

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I've never had that concern of thinking of myself as stupid.

  John Travolta

  Stupid, Thinking, Concern

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• There's no rule that everyone has to change.

  John Travolta

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The promise of change doesn't always mean something changes.

  John Travolta

  Mean, Promise, Things Change

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm too busy looking for the next role to do. I think about how to continue, to survive in the same vein. I like my career and my life as it is.

  John Travolta

  Thinking, Careers, Roles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  John Travolta

  People, Decision, Responsible

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I've done so many interviews that I've gotten past the ego and the personality. I used to feel that there might be something missing, but a few years ago I realized that I was so causative over how the interview went that I was no longer concerned over the effects of the interview.

  John Travolta

  Past, Years, Missing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• My frank response to all sex questions is that there is too much significance put on them to begin with. Sex is part of human nature, and I don't know why such a big deal is made out of it.

  John Travolta

  Sex, Too Much, Human Nature

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• After nine or 10 years of being interviewed, you start wanting to team up with the reporter and get the job done.

  John Travolta

  Jobs, Team, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I try to balance independent films with commercial films, and I've done a pretty good job of it over the years.

  John Travolta

  Jobs, Independent, Years

  "Wild Hogs - John Travolta interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• I'm a jet jockey and I've always escaped ever since I was a kid. I've always been a weekend type runaway person. Work hard, play hard type thing. It's not been a mid-life thing at all, it's been a habit because I think it changes your environment and how you feel even if it's for the day. It's a good thing.

  John Travolta

  Hard Work, Kids, Weekend

  "Wild Hogs - John Travolta interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.