How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you’re a dead man? You go to work.
When you dance, things just go away, things don’t seem so bad.
Talent deserves to be honored. Hands deserve to be slapped if you do something stupid as well, but don’t take it too far.
You can’t be pregnant in leotards, and this is the last chance for us to get our bodies into the shape of concert dancers and capture it with the magic of film.
When people are away from home, they do things they might not normally do.
Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true.
I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.
I had a lot of anger because I wasn’t happy with the way I had been raised.
To be honest, I’ve made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we’re either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.
There’s just something about dance. It’s like a primal thing in all of us.
One thing I’m not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won’t live.
You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.
Look at it! It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity, man! Let me go out there and let me get one wave, just one wave before you take me in. I mean, come on man, where I am I gonna go? Cliffs on both sides! I’m not gonna paddle my way to New Zealand! Come on, compadre. Come on!
Surfing’s the source. Can change your life. Swear to god.
Feel what the wave is doing, then accept its energy.
Good-looking people turn me off. Myself included.
I don’t want to be a poster child for cancer.
There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it ‘Patrick.’ I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff – something like $10 million worth. It’s insanity. I’m not going to do any of it.
When you are a pit bull, and you love what you do and you are going to continue to grow, that talent will find its way out.
Dance is the pure language of the soul – it’s been with us from the very beginning.