Dennis Quaid Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“It's as predictable as the sun rising in the morning. Every time Barack Obama's poll numbers rise you can be certain he's done something else to weaken the country. He's empowered a base that loathes American excellence.”
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“When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.”
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“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 owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics.”
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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 want to work with great people. Great people really make you better.”
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“As I grow older, I put all life's bulls**t aside. I think the process of the laying off of the bulls**t starts around 40. Before that, most men have their heads stuck in their ass. After 40, you see things differently. You've found yourself. You're accepting yourself and what you got from life.”
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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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“If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously.”
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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've always considered myself a character actor. That's the way I was trained, really.”
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“I'm not really a pitcher; I just play one in the movies.”
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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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“My real-life athletic career was not very much. I played Little League baseball.”
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“Playing Bill Clinton is really, probably, the scariest time of my career.”
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“You go to Main Street, and Wal-Mart is coming to town and kicking out all the mom and pop stores. All the people that were in the mom and pop stores are now working for Wal-Mart.”
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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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“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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“There's no way that I could do a 9 to 5 job. There's no way. I was not cut out for that. You come in and you work for three months on the one job. They say, 'Great,' you know, and you're on to the next one - and you never even got fired. It's wonderful.”
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“'Legion' was a lot of fun to shoot. It was a real unique apocalypse scenario that takes place in a diner out in the desert. Very much like a drive-in B-movie, but in a good way.”
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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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“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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“I was a guy back in the Eighties who was one movie away from a huge career, which at that time didn't happen. In the Nineties, I worked a lot, but it was kind of, 'Get out there and dig and find things.' Then I guess 'The Rookie' and 'Far From Heaven' were referred to as my comeback.”
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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 wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. I grew up in Houston. Gordo Cooper was my favorite astronaut.”
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“Golf is meaningless, but it means so much.”
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“Jesus himself talked about prayer and meditation. Anything that brings you closer to the Lord, what's wrong with that?”
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“I love being a dad, and I'm good at it. Kids teach you about life, like how not to focus on yourself so much.”
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“I would like my kids to follow their bliss.”
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