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John Travolta

Spent nine months learning how to dance to disco music while filming सैटरडे नाईट फीवर (1977).
Turned down the roles: Splash (1984), अपोलो 13 (1995) and Forrest Gump (1994). Tom Hanks was cast as the lead.
During the filming of The Boy in the Plastic Bubble (1976), he fell in love with Diana Hyland, 18 years his senior. She died of breast cancer at 41, in his arms, in 1977. Coincidentally, in 2020, his wife, Kelly Preston, the mother of his three children, also died of breast cancer.
Speaks French fluently.
In 1985, Princess Diana asked him to dance at a party at the White House.

[on his role in Carrie (1976)]: I wanted to work with Brian De Palma. I knew the film would be interesting and attract a lot of attention.
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.
There is nothing gay in this movie (हेयरस्प्रे (2007)). I'm not playing a gay man. Scientology is not homophobic in any way. In fact, it's one of the more tolerant faiths. Anyone's accepted.
When they asked me to be Edna Turnblad I said, "Gee, 32 years as a leading man -- why me? What makes you think I'd be the perfect woman?".
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. You have to go out of your way to activate your dreams and keep them going in this third chapter of your life.