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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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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Don't program yourself to break down as you age with thoughts that decline is inevitable. Time may be passing for our bodies, but because they house our ageless souls, we never need to see ourselves as old and infirm.
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I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.
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A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
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I don't ever want to seem like I'm trying to command attention through the way I dress - but I have certainly been known to wear everything from a flamboyant suit to something very mellow and classic. I aim to just look and feel confident.
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I'm pretty much a straight guy on 'The Office.' We can't all be crazies. You need some balance.
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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.
