Dennis Quaid Quotes

Everybody just wants to be famous first, and then maybe learn how to act.

Dennis Quaid

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• The way we do music in Brazil is very different because we are so moved by music; we grow up with that.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Up
  • Music
  • Different

• We are the only ones who really can care about the preservation Foreigners who come to excavate, maybe some of them care about preservation, but the majority care about discoveries.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • Care
  • Come
  • Maybe

• I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Career
  • Comedy
  • Expand

• My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Dad
  • Two
  • Ever

• The fairytale has turned into a nightmare.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Nightmare
  • Fairytale
  • Turned

• I'm always very happy to talk to people. I relate to people, and the guy on stage is very much the guy that's off stage. People know when it's fake.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Happy
  • Guy

• I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Different
  • School
  • Heart

• Therefore, you are not training young people for the world of today and the world of tomorrow unless you are doing proven technology training. That is one of the reasons I'm so concerned.

  

  Major Owens
  • People
  • World
  • Today

• When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Soul
  • Black
  • Water

• You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle!

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Kind
  • Need
  • Motorcycle

• I've never changed my life since I was 4 and went to the YMCA with a gym bag. I still have that philosophy. In fact, I still have that gym bag.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Life
  • Philosophy
  • My Life

• My earlier exposure to physics certainly helped me in the use of biophysical techniques like crystallography, the use of computing, calculations, etc.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Physics
  • Helped
  • Exposure

• This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Work
  • Doing
  • Environmental

• I had an addiction to sugar growing up - major, major, major.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Sense
  • Word
  • Century

• My knock with filmmaking is the whole bureaucracy around it, so in some ways, staying outside of it is easier for me.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Me
  • Filmmaking
  • Bureaucracy

• Well, surely, I am not in charge of South Africa.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Charge
  • South Africa

• North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Country
  • Humanity
  • Cuba

• I particularly enjoy cello music because our daughter plays the cello. I have listened to her practice for so many hours that I am familiar with the music written for that instrument. I am also fond of the popular music of the 1930s because my future husband and I danced to it so many Saturday nights when we were in college.

  

  Beverly Cleary
  • Music
  • Future
  • College

• In the five years from 2007 to 2012, we only gained a little over 1,200 farmers. Since we aren't going to stop eating, we have to reverse that trend, or we'll see even more consolidation, more corporate farms, or increasing food imports; none of that is in our interest.

  

  Chris Gibson
  • Food
  • Stop

• And I don't want to live anywhere where I am famous. It makes me very, very uncomfortable, because it conveys an advantage over people, and I don't like that.

  

  Donna Leon
  • People
  • Live
  • Famous

• After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.

  

  Mickey Mantle
  • Running
  • Enough
  • Famous

• Everybody just wants to be famous first, and then maybe learn how to act.

  

  Dennis Quaid
  • Famous