Dennis Quaid Quotes
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I'd love to do a golf movie. I turned down Don Johnson's role in 'Tin Cup.' I regret that.
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I used to eat a lot of fish, but I've been shying away from it because of the mercury thing. I eat more beef and chicken now.
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My real-life athletic career was not very much. I played Little League baseball.
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I want to work with great people. Great people really make you better.
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I like acting and being a musician. It's like comparing apples and oranges. But I really like my day job. I've always played music since I was 12, and I guess I always will.
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Clinton knew how to get things done. He was battling the Republicans, and then he basically took a lot of their agenda and made it his own. That's what Obama's not doing.
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There are three things being a celebrity is good for: raising money for charity, dinner reservations and tee times.
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You don't have to be alone with your thoughts anymore. You don't have to process anything. You can call up someone to do something to instantly make you sort of feel better.
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What I find is that we're all human beings and that it's all very similar, what we believe. At the bottom, there's really not that much difference between Christians and Muslims and Hindus and Buddhists. We all worship God.
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I found golf late in life, in 1990. I took some lessons and struggled. Then one day, I hit a drive that was so crisp and clean, with no vibration. There's no feeling like it. I was hooked.
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In my early teen years, I wanted to become a vet. That was my plan. I worked as a veterinarian's assistant for a couple of summers.
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I would like my kids to follow their bliss.
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I grew up in Houston, and I remember we had separate drinking fountains, and black people sat in the balcony of the theater... We had an African-American housekeeper growing up who was really like my second mother. I thought it was silly - hatred just because of the color of somebody's skin.
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I guess I could say I'm an actor, which I am, but that sounds like I'm putting down being a movie star, which, let's face it, is what I've become to many people. For myself, I'm a guy who was very insecure from about age 14 until the day I hit my 30th birthday.
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I have always done my own stunts, and I have been in hundreds of fights in films, but I have never been in a fist fight outside the movies.
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I love being a dad. Basically it's the most gratifying, rewarding relationship in life. But, at the same time, it certainly is the most challenging.
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It's great to get paid for what you love doing most. To enjoy your work. And to follow that. It's important.
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What, like I want to look like Dick Clark? No. I think I look great with liver spots.
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I have a ranch in Montana, but it's not a real working ranch. I've always liked the outdoors. I come from Texas. My grandfather was a farmer; that's as close as I come.
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When I was in my mid-20s, I traveled a lot around the world, and the question I had for everyone I talked to was, 'What is your conception of God?' I found that everybody basically felt the same: God is within and without. He's in everything.
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I didn't play football in school, but I've been a fan of football all my life. I have a fair understanding of it. Doing movies about it really helps because you know what makes them work and what doesn't.
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What they will do is, you know the tabloids. They'll take one element of a story that may be true and they'll build everything around it. Take a picture and invent a story around it.
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I directed a movie back in the '90s which had calf roping in it, and I got into it quite a bit back then.
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I really love doing what I do, being an actor. It's the greatest. You can do it until you die.