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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The sneaking arts of underling tradesmen are thus erected into political maxims for the conduct of a great empire; for it is the most underling tradesmen only who make it a rule to employ chiefly their own customers. A great trader purchases his good always where they are cheapest and best, without regard to any little interest of this kind.
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I had to wait a while to get the scans back but it shows nothing in terms of needing surgery which is good. I hurt my AC joint and I just need to strengthen it. There is an outside chance to start training by the end of this week and if not than the start of next week.
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I heard one time that the Superman glyph is the second or third most recognizable symbol on Earth after the Christian cross.
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We speak continually of saving time, but time in its richness is most often lost to us when we are busy without relief.
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As a producer, I try to bring as many nice people as I can to insure that there's no screaming, there's no shouting, there's no bullying. The more of those kind of people that you can bring together, the better the experience everyone has on set.
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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.
