Looking for inspiration? Dive into the ultimate compilation of 99 inspiring John Travolta quotes. From his iconic roles in movies like Saturday Night Fever and Pulp Fiction, Travolta’s words of wisdom will motivate and uplift you. Discover the power of his timeless quotes that will ignite your passion and make you believe in yourself.
John Travolta Quotes
1- “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
2- “It is about getting a sense of integrity about issues. That was was my enlightenment over it and knowing that I had a safe place to go to handle anything in life.” -John Travolta
3- “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
4- “Never say anything unless you have to.” -John Travolta
5- “I love Scientology. I’ve been involved for 38 years, and I don’t think I’d be here without it because I’ve had a lot of losses and different negative things that have happened over the years and it really got me through brilliantly.” -John Travolta
6- “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
7- “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
8- “I’ve never had that concern of thinking of myself as stupid.” -John Travolta
9- “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
10- “The women I liked when I was growing up, as a little boy, were Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor, because they had these curvaceous figures, and they were erotic to me.” -John Travolta
11- “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
12- “The promise of change doesn’t always mean something changes.” -John Travolta
13- “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
14- “Let’s share our abundance and make our country stronger.” -John Travolta
15- “I’m realizing that for so much of my life I had an older viewpoint; I saw things as an older person. That’s common among change-of-life babies. So I have this dichotomy where I’m either, like, super young or feel like I’m coming to the end of my years.” -John Travolta
16- “I don’t think I’m very cool as a person. I’m just better than anyone else at acting cool.” -John Travolta
17- “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
18- “I believe in love and marriage, but not necessarily with the same person.” -John Travolta
19- “Princess Diana was a nice dancer because she had confidence. In fact, when we danced together she started to lead, and I looked her in eye and went, ‘No, you have to let me lead.’ So I grabbed her around the waist and we were off to the races.” -John Travolta
20- “When all else fails, fresh tactics!” -John Travolta
21- “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
22- “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
23- “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
24- “Life is overwhelming. Life is not easy. Life is tough. And you need something that really works and helps you actually, not promises to help you, then fail.” -John Travolta
25- “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.” -John Travolta
26- “Well, I enjoy my life. You know, I think life is an art, and that one has to live it as an art. That’s your choice.” -John Travolta
27- “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
28- “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
29- “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
30- “I learned early on that there are certain things you can control in the press, and things you cannot.” -John Travolta
31- “There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth.” -John Travolta
32- “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
33- “Acting is a mix of luck and choice. I got lucky.” -John Travolta
34 “One of the things about the whole Harley motorcycle culture is that it’s a little bit renegade.” -John Travolta
35- “I don’t believe in regrets; I believe your future is in your tomorrows.” -John Travolta
36- “I’ve ridden a bike since I was 18. It was the first transportation when I came to Hollywood because it was inexpensive and easy for me.” -John Travolta
37- “I think, for sure, ‘Saturday Night Fever’ and ‘Pulp Fiction’ were kind of bookends for – or the pillars of – my career.” -John Travolta
38- “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
39- “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
40- “I think what you have to do is have a box office success in every genre and then you’re set for life. And fortunately, I happened to do that, so I get a myriad of offers of various sorts.” -John Travolta
41- “And now after all this time I finally figured out how to trap him… I will become him.” -John Travolta
42-“I’ve always slightly regretted not taking up Chicago.” -John Travolta
43- “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
44- “I rode many bikes and motorcycles. My brother was in an accident when he was a kid and my mom forbade us to use motorcycles.” -John Travolta
45- “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
46- “There’s no rule that everyone has to change.” -John Travolta
47- “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
48- “I don’t recall the so-called devilish things I do. But there are considerable amounts.” -John Travolta
49- “You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend.” -John Travolta
50- “I like to fly at least once a day.” -John Travolta
51- “Good writing is good writing, but that doesn’t mean you can’t orchestrate it or tweak it.” -John Travolta
52- “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
53- “Your life starts to take shape at 30. You don’t have to make excuses for who you are anymore.” -John Travolta
54- “After nine or 10 years of being interviewed, you start wanting to team up with the reporter and get the job done.” -John Travolta
55- “I don’t mind gearing my life towards privacy. It’s my nature.” -John Travolta
56- “To Americans religious freedom is sacred.” -John Travolta
57- “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
58- “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
59- “Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude.” -John Travolta
60- “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
61- “Dancing’s part of my soul. I enjoy it, it makes people happy, and it makes me happy.” -John Travolta
62- “I called my son Jett and I wanted to call my daughter Qantas but my wife wouldn’t let me.” -John Travolta
63- “So you know what I’m gonna do? I’m gonna do something really outrageous, I’m gonna tell the truth.” -John Travolta
64- “I was always a character actor, basically, that sometimes looks like a leading man.
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65- “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
66- “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.
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67- “I will direct one day, but I have a feeling that it will be very limited.” -John Travolta
68- “I am not at all computer literate in real life. I haven’t yet found a reason to be. Once I find a reason why I need to be on the Internet, then I will be.
” -John Travolta
69- “He lives with his creativity in high gear.” -John Travolta
70- “You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others.
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71- “It’s hard to make a cultural phenomenon every time.” -John Travolta
72- “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.
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73- “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
74- “I’m willing to look my own nightmare on film, but if it endangers my life, then I’m willing to put my life before movies.
” -John Travolta
75- “I have a dance background. I have an athletic background.
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76- “People make judgments about Scientology, but often they don’t know what they’re talking about.
” -John Travolta
77- “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.
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78- “Oh yeah, dancing’s part of my soul. I enjoy it, it makes people happy, and it makes me happy.
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79- “Autism and seizures are the least known areas of illnesses.
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80- “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.
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81- “Scientology is one of the least homophobic religions. It’s not very interested in the body at all.
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82- “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.
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83- “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
84- “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
85- “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.
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86- “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.
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87- “I love fun movies that also have something to say. They tend to stay with me, always.
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88- “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
89- “I’m not big on sequels; I’ve done them, but I like doing little things that have their own timelessness to them, classic type things, and then you go onto something new.
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90- “I’ve done so many interviews that I’ve gotten past the ego and the personality.
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91- “I wouldn’t trade my career with anybody’s. I’d trade a few movies with Tom Hanks – ‘Apollo 13’ and ‘Forrest Gump‘ – but other than that, I love my career.
” -John Travolta
92- “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.
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93- “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.
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94- “Having kids is something you can’t always do. Kids are like lightning. You grab that lightning when you can get it.
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95- “I actually do like playing off-beat people. I think it’s more fun.
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96- “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.
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97- “You can’t control the quality of projects that are coming to you, so if you get several in a row that are quality, you take them.
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98- “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.
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99- “With some actors, you can tell when they’re acting all by themselves, no matter who else is in the screen.
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