Dennis Quaid Quotes

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.

I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.

I really want to see the Cubs in the World Series. I really do.

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

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.

Everybody just wants to be famous first, and then maybe learn how to act.

Certainly I'm a Christian first and foremost. But I do believe in religious tolerance and finding the commonality between all of us. I think that's how we're all going to come together.

God is the only way you're going to make it in life, the glue that holds everything together.

I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted.

I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics.

My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story. That's what directors are, they're storytellers because they're directing where your focus is going to be as an audience.

I always wanted to be an astronaut.

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.

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

I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don't know how.

I can't hit a ball more than 200 yards. I have no butt. You need a butt if you're going to hit a golf ball.

That's what is great about what I do, going from one job to the other.

If we never felt sorrow, we'd never recognize bliss.

The truth [always] lies in things that have no words.

My family is the most important thing in the world to me, too, before anything else.

There are three things being a celebrity is good for: raising money for charity, dinner reservations and tee times.

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.

Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.

I look for a good story. Usually the best stories are the ones that are unbelievably true. 'Soul Surfer' is one of those stories.

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.

I've done so many movies that when I see them I don't really watch them.

I was a really avid bowler when I was a teenager. I had about a 210-220 average. I had blisters on my fingers.

Playing Bill Clinton is really, probably, the scariest time of my career.

I don't have a grand strategy for my career. I just look for good material, and good stories. I look for good scripts.

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.

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

I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. I grew up in Houston. Gordo Cooper was my favorite astronaut.

I would like my kids to follow their bliss.

I'd love to do a golf movie. I turned down Don Johnson's role in 'Tin Cup.' I regret that.

You have to have the ability to remake yourself. Whatever that is. Every several years... Every five to 10 years.

'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.

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.

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.

If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously.

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.

What is great about art and artists is that we get to ask the questions, even though we may never know the answers.

Back then, people were throwing their underwear onstage. I remember taking eight pairs of my own underwear to the cleaners and getting only four back.

Jesus himself talked about prayer and meditation. Anything that brings you closer to the Lord, what's wrong with that?

I found that you don't have to do drugs to have a great time. Music is a great drug on its own.

Golf is meaningless, but it means so much.

I've always considered myself a character actor. That's the way I was trained, really.

I'm an idol of cinema? Oh, wow.

I love doing independent films, but it's very hard to make a living that way.

I could never hold a job for more than three months, which works out well because that's how long a movie shoots.