Dennis Quaid Quotes

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Dennis Quaid

Profession : Actor

Birth : April 9, 1954

I'm not really a pitcher; I just play one in the movies.

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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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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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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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You don't bad-mouth your ex or anything like that. The key is your kid knowing that both parents still love him and are there for him.

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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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Family is the most important thing in life, period.

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If I've done anything intentional about my career, is that I really have not - I've chosen to try to do as many different types of things as possible. That's really what I like to do.

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I love to work. I actually enjoy it now more than I did when I was in my 20s. I don't know why, but I'm just grateful.

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Movies usually find me, but I'm open to anything.

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I would like to work with Todd Phillips of 'The Hangover'. I would like to do more comedies; it would be a lot of fun. No actors in particular. I don't consciously seek out things to do.

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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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Going to the golf course every day for work? That's a good job.

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I was a late bloomer. I tried out for the football team, and I got locked off the field. That's how I wound up in drama.

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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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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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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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Horseracing and ranch horses are two different animals. You're getting race horses out and running and running them. It can be really problematic. A thoroughbred's very delicate.

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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 want to work with great people. Great people really make you better.

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