Dennis Quaid Quotes
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I don't see how it's a risky thing to take a great part with a great director and a great script. That, to me, is not really a dangerous, risky proposition. It's actually a really good choice.
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Playing Bill Clinton is really, probably, the scariest time of my career.
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I love doing independent films, but it's very hard to make a living that way.
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A lot of people that I started out with, I don't know where they are. I guess it takes tenacity to still be doing this, and luck, but I've been very blessed.
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I was a really avid bowler when I was a teenager. I had about a 210-220 average. I had blisters on my fingers.
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I've always considered myself a character actor. That's the way I was trained, really.
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In aviation they have auto pilot and color radar and a lot of other instrumentation that is a backup for pilots. It's really brought the incidents of plane crashes way down. Same thing ought to happen in the medical industry, I think.
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It's hard for two actors to be together. Take the traveling, for instance. It winds up being a long distance relationship, all the time, because one's working here and one's working there, or one's staying at home and one's off someplace else.
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Families need a spiritual bond with one another and with God. God is the only way you're going to make it in life, the glue that holds everything together.
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I've done so many movies that when I see them I don't really watch them.
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I'm lucky. I have a high metabolism, so I pretty much eat anything and everything.
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Your partner has to live with the best and the worst part of you, and they're affected by it.
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It's about... my only strategy I've ever had in my career is to do as many different types of roles as possible, as many different types of genres. It keeps the fire in my belly.
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Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.
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I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.
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I love politics, but I wouldn't want to be involved in it. Too little money, too much work! I don't really have the personality for that.
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When I watch a movie that I've been in, I'm watching it, but I usually remember what I was doing at that time, what was going on in my life.
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I grew up Baptist and still go to church. I myself have explored other religions, because I want to know what it is that makes other people tick. I find we're all talking about the same thing, really - it's all God.
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I learned to surf for 'Soul Surfer.' Surfing is like golf: You're always battling, and it keeps knocking you down. There are a lot of wipeouts. But when you stay with it and catch that wave, you really taste it. It's magic.
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I really want to see the Cubs in the World Series. I really do.