I’m so sad. Poor Patrick Swayze…..battling pancreatic cancer. What teenage girl in the 1980’s/early 1990’s didn’t just adore him in Dirty Dancing? Roadhouse? Ghost? The Outsiders? SNL?

I leave you with pearls of wisdom from Johnny Castle in Dirty Dancing:

• “Look, spaghetti arms. This is my dance space. This is your dance space. I don’t go into yours, you don’t go into mine. You gotta hold the frame.”
• “No, I mean the way he saved her. I mean, I… I could never do anything like that. That was somethin’. The reason people treat me like I’m nothin’ is ’cause I’m nothin’.”
• “Nobody puts Baby in the corner.”
• “Now, you’ll hurt me if you don’t trust me, all right?”
• “Just put your pickle on everybody’s plate college boy and leave the hard stuff to me.”
• “I’m gonna do my kind of dancin’ with a great partner, who’s not only a terrific dancer; somebody who’s taught me that there are people willing to stand up for other people no matter what it costs them; somebody who’s taught me about the kind of person I wanna be.”
• “Yeah, it takes a real saint to ask Daddy.”
• “Don’t put your heel down, don’t put your heel down!”
• “It’s not on the one, it’s not the mambo, it’s a feeling a heartbeat.”
• “You don’t understand the way it is, I mean for somebody like me. Last month I’m eating Jujubes to keep alive, and this month women are stuffing diamonds in my pocket, I’m balancing on shit and quick as that [clicks his fingers] I could be down there again.