Dennis Quaid Quotes
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Golf is meaningless, but it means so much.
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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 love politics, but I wouldn't want to be involved in it. Too little money, too much work!
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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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I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted.
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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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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 want to work with great people. Great people really make you better.
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I would like my kids to follow their bliss.
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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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My real-life athletic career was not very much. I played Little League baseball.
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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 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 acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don't know how.
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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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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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What, like I want to look like Dick Clark? No. I think I look great with liver spots.
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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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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 really want to see the Cubs in the World Series. I really do.
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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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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've never really sought out publicity.
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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.