Top 100 John Travolta Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Misdirection. What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes.”

— John Travolta

2. “Everything is on its way to somewhere.”

— John Travolta

3. “You gotta learn to laugh, it’s the way to true love.”

— John Travolta

4. “Hollywood is controlled by homosexual Jewish men who expect favors in return for sexual activity.”

— John Travolta

5. “Your life starts to take shape at 30. You don’t have to make excuses for who you are anymore.”

— John Travolta

6. “Money and power come as a byproduct of things well done.”

— John Travolta

7. “Dancing’s part of my soul. I enjoy it, it makes people happy, and it makes me happy.”

— John Travolta

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

— John Travolta

9. “As you get older you have to force yourself to have new dreams.”

— John Travolta

10. “So you know what I’m gonna do? I’m gonna do something really outrageous, I’m gonna tell the truth.”

— John Travolta

11. “It’s hard to make a cultural phenomenon every time.”

— John Travolta

12. “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

13. “I have a dance background. I have an athletic background.”

— John Travolta

14. “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

15. “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

16. “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

17. “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

18. “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

19. “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

20. “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

21. “My road trips have been to Vegas, but you know, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.”

— John Travolta

22. “If I’m androgynous, I’d say I lean toward macho-androgynous.”

— John Travolta

23. “Autism and seizures are the least known areas of illnesses.”

— John Travolta

24. “Good writing is good writing, but that doesn’t mean you can’t orchestrate it or tweak it.”

— John Travolta

25. “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

26. “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

27. “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

28. “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

29. “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

30. “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

31. “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

32. “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

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

— John Travolta

34. “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

35. “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

36. “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

37. “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

38. “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

39. “I have 12 paintings of Kaufman art. He is an amazing artist.”

— John Travolta

40. “I called my son Jett and I wanted to call my daughter Qantas but my wife wouldn’t let me.”

— John Travolta

41. “I try to balance independent films with commercial films, and I’ve done a pretty good job of it over the years.”

— John Travolta

42. “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

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

— John Travolta

44. “There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth.”

— John Travolta

45. “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

46. “If you’re going to play a woman, you might as well play a woman that you liked, and someone sexy.”

— John Travolta

47. “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

48. “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.”

— John Travolta

49. “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

50. “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