The 10 commandments of a real man from Patrick Swayze Bashny.Net

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He walked a difficult path, all the trials, the hardships, endured with the fortitude of a warrior. Was grateful for sorrow and for joy. What was his secret, and that led him in life?

Actor, dancer and performer of his songs, Patrick Swayze became an idol for thousands of fans. His record includes dozens of paintings that have become iconic all over the world. But before you can achieve such heights, the actor had to overcome many difficulties that tempered his character and taught him true courage. Its principles had crystallized gradually and now they can be viewed as the commandments of men

1. To be the best in everything that you undertake

Not by chance the movie "Dirty dancing" was the first real triumph of the actor in the film world. Thanks to passion for dancing, he punched his way to glory. Patrick Swayze was a professional dancer, he graduated from the Harkness Ballet school and Joffrey Ballet school. You could say he danced with the cradle. His mother, Patsy Swayze was a choreographer, dancer and a famous owner of a private ballet Studio. She had always been told her son that he should be first in everything that decided to take. Dance became his school of life, brought up in it the strength of character and an unwavering desire to achieve your maximum. This was his credo and identified future career:

"Regardless of whether the film promises to be a hit or not, must pay himself 100 percent and never work for money – just out of passion. And no matter what people think about you in Hollywood. Fans will never forget you if you will not forget them."



A scene from the movie "Dirty dancing."

 

2. Not to fight but to retreat

However, the fascination of a boy dancing in the brutal environment of adolescents not added to his popularity. He was considered a weakling, mocked and even beaten. After another attack of the bullies in the education of his son decided to step father and he taught him a few lessons of self-defense, and then recorded in the Eastern martial arts club. In this case, Patrick Swayze excelled no less than in dancing, received at a very young age a black belt in kung fu. The father taught his son never to start a fight, but if he were in a situation when you have to stand up for yourself – never give up first. This setting Patrick has carried throughout his life. Recalling his character in the movie "road House", he says:

"I love that I had the rare opportunity to show my hero my passion for peace-loving warriors: to be superlock, but to avoid violence and not to harm a man at any cost as long as you can avoid it".





A scene from the movie "road House".

 

3. To be able to refuse

Patrick Swayze never stayed there. Despite his love for dancing and the virtuosity of his body, he realized that to succeed in an acting career, those qualities cannot be removed. Already being a famous dancer, he found the courage to rein in their ambitions and to go to study acting. In recognition of the actor, it is the picture "Dirty dancing" taught him the ability to overshadow what you have already achieved the desired:

"...the film made me realize once and forever that their love of dance to keep somewhere very deep, not to be a dancer, turned actor. This would mean that I should not be taken seriously".





Frame from the movie "Ghost".

 

4. Don't stop learning

Absence of fear before diving in those areas in which you need to rediscover who you are, the ability to step from the top at the zero point, in order to succeed in the conceived, Patrick Swayze valued very highly in themselves and in their colleagues. In the movie "Rogue" by Francis Ford Coppola, he had the opportunity to work with very talented and already recognized at that time actors.

"If you start with "I don't know," your growth will know no bounds. If you treat everything from the perspective of "I know" that grow nowhere".



Frame from the film "Rogue".

 

5. Keep moving, even if very hard

Arriving in new York, Patrick Swayze quickly gained popularity in the Broadway musical "Brilliantine", but due to an old football injury of his career in the ballet was doomed. It was a terrible shock, because in dancing Patrick saw his destiny. But he didn't give up and never returned home, although he had a very hard time, despite the fact that Swayze behind shoulders already had an experience of the movie, before Hollywood took it, they with the wife had to eat only peanut butter and oranges plucked from a tree from a neighboring yard.

The saving was the film "North and South", where Patrick played his first major role. However, the life of an actor again and again was giving him unpleasant surprises. For example, the time of the filming of "Letters of the murderer" Patrick had to pay a serious price for something that worked without a stunt double – he fell from his horse, and suffered a fracture of both legs and tear four tendons of the shoulder. Shooting had to be suspended for two years, and the actor to rebuild themselves literally in pieces to return "in a cage".

"I never was the one to give in to the challenge, cast by fate."





Frame from the film "On the crest of a wave".

 

6. To be loyal in love

In 1991, the American People magazine named Patrick Swayze "the sexiest man" of the year. However, in life the actor does not aspire to be supermacho. He met his life partner when he was 18 years old, and she was barely 15, and 4 years later they got married. Lisa Niemi was a student of the ballet school mother Swayze. She was the only companion of his life, with whom they lived together for almost forty years. And become not only best friends and companions, but kept the romance – in may 2008, Patrick and Lisa held a ceremony and repeated their wedding vows.

According to Lisa Niemi, their marriage was so strong because despite her workload, her husband never forgot about her, never allowed to feel lonely. And the actor was seen in a happy family life is not only life support but also the source for continuous self-improvement:

"I believe that a long marriage helps to preserve the love: it teaches you how to fall in love with his half again and again, not seeing it simply as a tribute, to learn forgiveness and trust. Why it was created, for us it works."





Patrick Swayze with his wife.

 

7. Love your planet

Many celebrities today are trying to show that they are concerned about environmental issues. The struggle for a clean planet has become a fashion trend, the required "sale" of screen image. However, Patrick Swayze and Lisa Niemi were fighters for the preservation of wildlife and worked on environmental issues since the early nineties. He loved animals and they reciprocate. On his ranch Patrick bred horses, turning it into a real sanctuary. His beliefs he tried to broadcast through the screen and to convey to the audience a love of nature. The actor shares his thoughts about his character in the film "king Solomon's Mines":

"We wanted to create a dramatic epic with a sense of joyful adventure. And another thing, I tried to make my passion for wildlife conservation, to show the transformation of Quatermain from white hunter in specialist protection of the environment".





Patrick with wife Lisa Niemi.

 

8. Not to lose passion

The decision about whether to act in one way or another picture, Patrick Swayze took on the basis of, as he called it, "the test for goosebumps". He was sure that the film is "call" of the actor. According to the actor, from his father he inherited integrity, the integrity of nature and mother – the passion, the belief that all can be transmitted through art.

He was not afraid to take on complex, psychologically ambiguous imagery, because it was burning passion to convey through the language of cinema thin and deep feelings: it gave him the energy which he generously shared with the audience.

"What attracts viewers, so it's tense expectation, will reach hero on the screen what they yearn for in their lives, and this state not only on a physical level. It's something internal, psychological, some subtext, bites them and chases them like a demon. This deep-seated feeling or releases, or execution is required. This process is a very powerful tool for any storytelling".



Frame from the movie "Ghost."

 

9. To rely only on themselves

Patrick Swayze grieved at the death of his father, who died suddenly at 57 years of age. The inability to survive the loss led him to excessive drinking. This trouble lasted for many years, the actor could not get out of the abyss of alcoholism, until he got another blow of fate – his sister Vicky died from a drug overdose. It stunned Swayze, he decided to take himself in hand and to take seriously their health.

He realized that he needed to look for internal resources in order to cope with his illness. And that even the best clinics and the most loyal friends can't force a person to take responsibility for their lives and their happiness. Patrick again, though again, learned to walk in the real world where you want to be strong and enterprising. If he needed to be protected from external troubles, but now he was trying to win the internal battle. And it helped him to find support in himself, rebounding from which he rose again on the current level. Because for him it was important not just to measure his time on earth, and to strive for something, to follow your dreams:

"If you spend a lot of time just to maintain existence, you truly live."





 

10. To believe

Another lesson that Patrick Swayze gave life, is one of the most severe. In 2008 he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. The tumor could not be surgical intervention, so all that was left, – not to lose faith and to keep fighting.

Chemotherapy did not break Swayze: the actor has not ceased to believe that it will have a long and happy life without illness. He planned to publish his memoirs, which he wrote together with his wife, and continued to work in film. Playing a major role in the film "the Beast", even refused to take painkillers, fearing that they will affect his game. Chances to win in the struggle with the disease was very small. If he was afraid of death? It's hard to say. We believe that the actor, fine feeling of their characters in the movie "Ghost" spoke on his own behalf:

"...if you truly love someone, you die, you take all my love with you, because it's the only thing you can take with you in there."



Still from the film "the Beast."

"Anybody can perform a miracle. I believe that when a person is given something completely, gives up the case himself, all his power and passion, he will be able to translate into reality any dream".





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