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.

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

I love politics, but I wouldn't want to be involved in it. Too little money, too much work!

Golf is meaningless, but it means so much.

I really love doing what I do, being an actor. It's the greatest. You can do it until you die.

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

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

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.

Your partner has to live with the best and the worst part of you, and they're affected by it.

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.

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

My real-life athletic career was not very much. I played Little League baseball.

I went out for the football team but, you know, I was too small. That's how I wound up in drama.

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.

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

For many years, I was obsessed about what I was eating, how many calories it had, and how much exercise I'd have to do.

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

I have always done my own stunts, and I have been in hundreds of fights in films, but I have never been in a fist fight outside the movies.

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.

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.

I directed a movie back in the '90s which had calf roping in it, and I got into it quite a bit back then.

I'm lucky. I have a high metabolism, so I pretty much eat anything and everything.

I would like my kids to follow their bliss.

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.

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

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

I always want to find the best burger in town.

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

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

What, like I want to look like Dick Clark? No. I think I look great with liver spots.

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

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

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

It's great to get paid for what you love doing most. To enjoy your work. And to follow that. It's important.

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

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

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

Wall Street has come to America's heartland, really. The only thing missing are the skyscrapers, you know?

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

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.

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

When I choose a movie, I'll ask myself: 'Is this a movie I want to see?'

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

I've never really sought out publicity.

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

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

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