Dennis Quaid Quotes
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.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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My public in Guadalajara and the people from Guadalajara, they've supported me since day one.
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Most actors can't make any kind of living.
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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
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I am the guardian of power, not its owner.
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Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.
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Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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I feel like my competition is everything else that's competing for people's attention, not just other print magazines, newspapers and cable. It's your kid's report card and the games you want to play, all the things that compete for people's time.
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If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
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My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.
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I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first, or black, or a banker, but I'm gay.
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Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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If it's a big hit, fantastic. If it's not, then it's not. I don't worry about my work.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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You may be pulling from different influences because of different things that are going on in your life, different people that are around you and more experiences to pull from.
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I've had a different kind of career on the periphery of show business. I've never been on any kind of corporate timetable whereby every six months I have to pop out a record like a pulping mill. I've called my own shots. When I get tired, I take time off.
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With parody, you're referencing and sending up a particular genre, and mostly your material is going to be taken out of that genre.
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Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
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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.
