Top 112 Quotes & Sayings by Dennis Quaid
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
'Legion' was a lot of fun to shoot. It was a real unique apocalypse scenario that takes place in a diner out in the desert. Very much like a drive-in B-movie, but in a good way.
I've had varying luck with comedy in the past, but I'd really like to give that another go. I don't know if I'd chase down a part, but if the right thing came along I could certainly see myself stepping into that zone.
Going to the golf course every day for work? That's a good job.
A lot of people that I started out with, I don't know where they are. I guess it takes tenacity to still be doing this, and luck, but I've been very blessed.
Surfing is like golf: You're always battling, and it keeps knocking you down. There are a lot of wipeouts. But when you stay with it and catch that wave, you really taste it. It's magic.
My real-life athletic career was not very much. I played Little League baseball.
My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story. That's what directors are, they're storytellers because they're directing where your focus is going to be as an audience.
I didn't play football in school, but I've been a fan of football all my life. I have a fair understanding of it. Doing movies about it really helps because you know what makes them work and what doesn't.
There's no way that I could do a 9 to 5 job. There's no way. I was not cut out for that. You come in and you work for three months on the one job. They say, 'Great,' you know, and you're on to the next one - and you never even got fired. It's wonderful.
That's what is great about what I do, going from one job to the other.
I was a guy back in the Eighties who was one movie away from a huge career, which at that time didn't happen. In the Nineties, I worked a lot, but it was kind of, 'Get out there and dig and find things.' Then I guess 'The Rookie' and 'Far From Heaven' were referred to as my comeback.
Certainly I'm a Christian first and foremost. But I do believe in religious tolerance and finding the commonality between all of us. I think that's how we're all going to come together.
I could never hold a job for more than three months, which works out well because that's how long a movie shoots.
I try to be eclectic in my choice of films. If I've done anything that's intentional in my career, it's to try to do as many different types of characters and as many different types of genres of movies that I can.
What, like I want to look like Dick Clark? No. I think I look great with liver spots.
I always want to find the best burger in town.
I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.
I've done so many movies that when I see them I don't really watch them.
I've always considered myself a character actor. That's the way I was trained, really.
I directed a movie back in the '90s which had calf roping in it, and I got into it quite a bit back then.
Clinton knew how to get things done. He was battling the Republicans, and then he basically took a lot of their agenda and made it his own. That's what Obama's not doing.
One thing I've really never had a problem with was memorizing lines. Most of the time I don't memorize the lines until we're on the set shooting the scene.
I love politics, but I wouldn't want to be involved in it. Too little money, too much work!
I love politics, but I wouldn't want to be involved in it. Too little money, too much work! I don't really have the personality for that.
I judge movies on how much fun I had while I was doing them. I had a great time on 'The Right Stuff.' Doing that was fantastic. And there was the year I did 'The Rookie' and 'Far From Heaven,' which was amazing because those two different roles were just so far apart.
In my early teen years, I wanted to become a vet. That was my plan. I worked as a veterinarian's assistant for a couple of summers.
If I've done anything intentional about my career, is that I really have not - I've chosen to try to do as many different types of things as possible. That's really what I like to do.
When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.
Jesus himself talked about prayer and meditation. Anything that brings you closer to the Lord, what's wrong with that?
What they will do is, you know the tabloids. They'll take one element of a story that may be true and they'll build everything around it. Take a picture and invent a story around it.
I want to work with great people. Great people really make you better.
I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. I grew up in Houston. Gordo Cooper was my favorite astronaut.
I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don't know how.
I guess I could say I'm an actor, which I am, but that sounds like I'm putting down being a movie star, which, let's face it, is what I've become to many people. For myself, I'm a guy who was very insecure from about age 14 until the day I hit my 30th birthday.
It's about... my only strategy I've ever had in my career is to do as many different types of roles as possible, as many different types of genres. It keeps the fire in my belly.
Before I was an actor, I was never able to hold a job for more than 3 months for some reason. It just wouldn't hold my interest, so there was some way that I wound up quitting or getting fired from it. But being an actor is perfect, because movies usually take about three months to shoot. Then it's over and they say, 'Hey, great job!'
I was a late bloomer. I tried out for the football team, and I got locked off the field. That's how I wound up in drama.
I have a ranch in Montana, but it's not a real working ranch. I've always liked the outdoors. I come from Texas. My grandfather was a farmer; that's as close as I come.
God is the only way you're going to make it in life, the glue that holds everything together.
You don't bad-mouth your ex or anything like that. The key is your kid knowing that both parents still love him and are there for him.
I always wanted to be an astronaut.
I went out for the football team but, you know, I was too small. That's how I wound up in drama.
I really love doing what I do, being an actor. It's the greatest. You can do it until you die.
Horseracing and ranch horses are two different animals. You're getting race horses out and running and running them. It can be really problematic. A thoroughbred's very delicate.
In aviation they have auto pilot and color radar and a lot of other instrumentation that is a backup for pilots. It's really brought the incidents of plane crashes way down. Same thing ought to happen in the medical industry, I think.
Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.
Athletes are sort of part of the community at large. They have to be dedicated to what they do, and go through lots of peaks and valleys. And there's a lot of training that goes into their careers. It's a struggle. Very dramatic.
I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted.
I grew up Baptist and still go to church. I myself have explored other religions, because I want to know what it is that makes other people tick. I find we're all talking about the same thing, really - it's all God.
I love doing independent films, but it's very hard to make a living that way.
I love being a dad, and I'm good at it. Kids teach you about life, like how not to focus on yourself so much.
I can't hit a ball more than 200 yards. I have no butt. You need a butt if you're going to hit a golf ball.
It's great to get paid for what you love doing most. To enjoy your work. And to follow that. It's important.
Your partner has to live with the best and the worst part of you, and they're affected by it.
It's hard for two actors to be together. Take the traveling, for instance. It winds up being a long distance relationship, all the time, because one's working here and one's working there, or one's staying at home and one's off someplace else.
You don't have to be alone with your thoughts anymore. You don't have to process anything. You can call up someone to do something to instantly make you sort of feel better.
Movies usually find me, but I'm open to anything.
I've never really sought out publicity.
Family is the most important thing in life, period.
If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously.
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