8 Quotes & Sayings By John Travolta

John Joseph Travolta is an American actor, producer, and dancer. He was born on April 26, 1954 in Knoxville, Tennessee. He is a member of the famous Travolta family and has a younger brother, Joey. He began his career in the 1970s with a number of hit television shows such as Welcome Back Kotter and The Partridge Family Read more

His film debut was a small part in Saturday Night Fever. He followed up with a role in the Oscar-winning film Grease. In 1980 he went to star in the box-office hit Saturday Night Fever, which cemented his stardom.

Over the next few years he would get roles in a number of hits such as The Cannonball Run, Saturday Night Fever 2: Deliver Us from Evil, Look Who's Talking Now, Face/Off, Pulp Fiction, Get Shorty, Swordfish II: The Sequel and Kiss of Death. He is also known for his role as mobster Tony Montana in the critically acclaimed gangster movie Scarface.

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