Dennis Quaid
I'd love to do a golf movie. I turned down Don Johnson's role in 'Tin Cup.' I regret that.
Golf is meaningless, but it means so much.
I'm lucky. I have a high metabolism, so I pretty much eat anything and everything.
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 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.
I really want to see the Cubs in the World Series. I really do.
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.
I still have my original love for acting. That's why I feel so lucky. I think that's what sustains me in the sort of leaner times.
When I get a script, it's the only time that I get to be an audience member with the first-time experience of that movie. That's the first and only time.
Wall Street has come to America's heartland, really. The only thing missing are the skyscrapers, you know?
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.
I love politics, but I wouldn't want to be involved in it. Too little money, too much work!
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.Collection: Country
If we never felt sorrow, we'd never recognize bliss.Collection: Heartbroken
The truth [always] lies in things that have no words.Collection: Lying
I am very interest in the human condition. That is what I love about acting. I like studying different people and their psychosis. I like discovering what makes them tick. I always find that with any character I play. I need to find out what makes them tick.Collection: Character
I was very uncomfortable with all the attention when it first started happening to me. I retreated quite a bit from the world, both physically and emotionally. But then you just accept that you can't control what the rest of the world thinks or does.Collection: Thinking
What is great about art and artists is that we get to ask the questions, even though we may never know the answers.Collection: Inspirational
I found that you don't have to do drugs to have a great time. Music is a great drug on its own.Collection: Drug
I found myself in network always trying to play catch up because once things get going there's no time to fix this and that. And also the writing, it was more inclined to be by committee in network which drowns out the purity and the voice of the show.Collection: Writing
You have to have the fire in your belly. I'm having more fun now with acting than I did when I first started out, because I'm doing it just because I really enjoy it. I'm not trying to "make it" anymore. I'm not trying to be anything, you know? The biggest this and that for anybody. I'm just enjoying it.Collection: Fun
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.Collection: Eight
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.Collection: Long Distance Relationship
I don't have a grand strategy for my career. I just look for good material, and good stories. I look for good scripts.Collection: Strategy
Well, there's two things I have criteria for doing a film: The script, which is the story, and the filmmaker, and it's a filmmaker's medium. I like really strong directors, and so when I do a film, I'm out there to serve the director, really, which is in turn to serve the script, to serve the director cause he's the one making the film. I relied on Todd Haynes for that.Collection: Strong
You have to have the ability to remake yourself. Whatever that is. Every several years... Every five to 10 years.Collection: Ability
We all have one, in one form or another. To me, this dragon is both the wild nature of ourselves and our conscience in his embodiment of the Old Code ethical behavior and morality. At the same time, he's our unconscious, the place from which our dreams arise. I just spoke my lines to the dragon within me.Collection: Dream
My family is the most important thing in the world to me, too, before anything else.Collection: Family
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.Collection: Men