Top 100 John Travolta Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I learned early on that there are certain things you can control in the press, and things you cannot.”

— John Travolta

52. “There’s no rule that everyone has to change.”

— John Travolta

53. “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

54. “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

55. “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

56. “I love fun movies that also have something to say. They tend to stay with me, always.”

— John Travolta

57. “I will direct one day, but I have a feeling that it will be very limited.”

— John Travolta

58. “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

59. “I’ve always slightly regretted not taking up Chicago.”

— John Travolta

60. “I was always a character actor, basically, that sometimes looks like a leading man.”

— John Travolta

61. “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

62. “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.”

— John Travolta

63. “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

64. “To Americans religious freedom is sacred.”

— John Travolta

65. “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

66. “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.”

— John Travolta

67. “I like to fly at least once a day.”

— John Travolta

68. “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

69. “I actually do like playing off-beat people. I think it’s more fun.”

— John Travolta

70. “I don’t recall the so-called devilish things I do. But there are considerable amounts.”

— John Travolta

71. “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.”

— John Travolta

72. “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.”

— John Travolta

73. “One of the things about the whole Harley motorcycle culture is that it’s a little bit renegade.”

— John Travolta

74. “When all else fails, fresh tactics!”

— John Travolta

75. “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

76. “I believe in love and marriage, but not necessarily with the same person.”

— John Travolta

77. “I think, for sure, ‘Saturday Night Fever’ and ‘Pulp Fiction’ were kind of bookends for – or the pillars of – my career.”

— John Travolta

78. “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

79. “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

80. “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.”

— John Travolta

81. “I don’t think I’m very cool as a person. I’m just better than anyone else at acting cool.”

— John Travolta

82. “The promise of change doesn’t always mean something changes.”

— John Travolta

83. “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

84. “You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend.”

— John Travolta

85. “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

86. “Acting is a mix of luck and choice. I got lucky.”

— John Travolta

87. “I don’t believe in regrets; I believe your future is in your tomorrows.”

— John Travolta

88. “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

89. “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

90. “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

91. “I don’t mind gearing my life towards privacy. It’s my nature.”

— John Travolta

92. “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

93. “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

94. “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

95. “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

96. “Let’s share our abundance and make our country stronger.”

— John Travolta

97. “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

98. “I’ve never had that concern of thinking of myself as stupid.”

— John Travolta

99. “Never say anything unless you have to.”

— John Travolta

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

— John Travolta