John Joseph Travolta (born February 18, 1954) is an American actor, film producer, dancer, and singer. During the 1970s, he appeared in the TV show Welcome Back, Kotor (1975–1979) and saw box office success in Saturday Night Fever (1977) and Grease (1978). His acting career declined in the 1980s but enjoyed a resurgence in 1990 with his role in Pulp Fiction (1994), and he has since starred in films such as Get Shorty, Broken Arrow, Face/Off, Swordfish, Be Cool, Wild Hogs, Hairspray, and The Taking of Pelham 123. Travolta was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor for his performances in Saturday Night Fever and Pulp Fiction. He won his first and only Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for his performance in getting Shorty and has received a total of six nominations, the most recent in 2011. In 2010, he received the IIFA Award for Outstanding Achievement in International Cinema. Here is a series of motivational and inspiring quotes by Pulp Fiction actor John Travolta.
John Travolta quotes
- “Misdirection. What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes.”— John Travolta
“Everything is on its way to somewhere.”
— John Travolta
- “You gotta learn to laugh, it’s the way to true love.”— John Travolta
- “Dancing’s part of my soul. I enjoy it, it makes people happy, and it makes me happy.”— John Travolta
- “As you get older you have to force yourself to have new dreams.”— John Travolta
- “Money and power come as a byproduct of things well done.”— John Travolta
- “So you know what I’m gonna do? I’m gonna do something really outrageous, I’m gonna tell the truth.”— John Travolta
- “Your life starts to take shape at 30. You don’t have to make excuses for who you are anymore.”— John Travolta
- “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.”— John Travolta
- “You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others.”— John Travolta
- “I have a dance background. I have an athletic background.”— John Travolta
- “In my own life if I knew I was going to pass away I’d love to sit down and resolve every issue so I could go peacefully.”— John Travolta
- “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
- “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
- “If I’m androgynous, I’d say I lean toward macho-androgynous.”— John Travolta
- “I’ve always thought that as long as I did the right things and had the right intentions, everything would fall into place.”— John Travolta
- “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
- “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.”— John Travolta
- “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
- 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
- “When I was a very little boy, I lived underneath the air pattern of LaGuardia airport in New York and I watched the planes fly to their destinations. I was in love with the design of these airplanes.”— John Travolta
- “I probably have some sort of chocolate five times a week. There’s definitely a change it does to the chemistry of the body. It’s my favorite feeling. I live for it.”— John Travolta
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- “Autism and seizures are the least known areas of illnesses.”— John Travolta
- “If you’re going to play a woman, you might as well play a woman that you liked, and someone s#xy.”— John Travolta
- “My road trips have been to Vegas, but you know, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.”— John Travolta
- “People really need to take time and read a book, you know, that’s my advice. You could read ‘A New Slant on Life,’ you could read ‘Dianetics.’ And I think if you really read it, you’ll understand it, but unless you do, you’ll speculate. And I think that’s a mistake to do that.”— John Travolta
- “You have to remember everything you’ve created. But then comes a moment when it’s all automatic pilot, where it all comes together and you don’t have to think about it any more.”— John Travolta
- “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
- “I have 12 paintings of Kaufman art. He is an amazing artist.”— John Travolta
- “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
- “From the time I was a kid, I had a wanderlust. I always wanted to travel, in any form – plane, train, boat, car, motorcycle. So I think that if I ever do have a mid-life crisis, I have all the toys to refer to quickly.”— John Travolta
- “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
“There’s no rule that everyone has to change.”
— John Travolta
- “I’ve always slightly regretted not taking up Chicago.”— John Travolta
- “I called my son Jett and I wanted to call my daughter Qantas but my wife wouldn’t let me.”— John Travolta
- “After nine or 10 years of being interviewed, you start wanting to team up with the reporter and get the job done.”— John Travolta
- “I love fun movies that also have something to say. They tend to stay with me, always.”— John Travolta
- “Christopher Walken was probably the most experienced dancing partner I’ve had in movies, because he has the same background as I do. He’s from theatre, Broadway and off-Broadway, and we both shared that.”— John Travolta
- “Even if the script’s well written there’s something about the life of an improvisation that resonates better than a written word, sometimes.”— John Travolta
- “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
- “I try to balance independent films with commercial films, and I’ve done a pretty good job of it over the years.”— John Travolta
- “Having kids is something you can’t always do. Kids are like lightning. You grab that lightning when you can get it.”— John Travolta
- “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
- “Good writing is good writing, but that doesn’t mean you can’t orchestrate it or tweak it.”— John Travolta
- “I grew up, in my childhood, with some of the greatest women performers, on stage and on screen, and even my family – my mother and my sisters. So I was very busy watching women, as a child! I have a lot of memories of great women performers.”— John Travolta
- “Every day my mother had tea. My dad has his ritual cigar. They had their evening cocktail. Those rituals were done nicely, with flair and feeling.”— John Travolta
- “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
“There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth.”
— John Travolta
- “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.”— John Travolta
