Dennis Quaid Quotes

• 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.

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  Tags in Hit

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

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  Topics in Job, Work

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

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  Tags in Resistance

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

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  Topics in Love, Luck

  Tags in Guess

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

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  Topics in Work

  Tags in People, Great

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Perfectionist

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

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  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Watch

• 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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  Topics in Business

  Tags in Consciously

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Interpretation

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

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  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Important

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

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  Topics in Job

  Tags in Great

• 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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  Topics in Job, Work

  Tags in Great

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

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  Topics in Sports

  Tags in Think, Great

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

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  Topics in Death

• You don’t have to be alone with your thoughts anymore. You don’t have to process anything. You can call up someone to do something to instantly make you sort of feel better.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Better

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

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  Topics in Movies

Dennis Quaid (16)

Birth:	9th April, 1954
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

About

Dennis William Quaid was born in Houston, Texas. He is an American actor known for a wide variety of dramatic and comedic roles. For his role in Far from Heaven he won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor, the Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor, the Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male. He studied Mandarin and dance at Bellaire High School in Bellaire, Texas.

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