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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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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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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You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
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On the tour we get a case of beer on the bus every day from Ozzfest.
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Tis a principle of war that when you can use the lightning, 'tis better than cannon.
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I was familiar with 'Addicted' for a long time, even prior to the movie, way before it got the greenlight. And when it finally got the greenlight, I was very happy to be a part of it.
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I'm not running around as a continual ray of sunshine. It's just I don't believe in wasting time feeling sorry for myself. Get over it.
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Delegate it to the manager. You have this really good staff that will take care of everything for you. You just have to delegate it and trust it.
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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.
