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.

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

I like acting and being a musician. It's like comparing apples and oranges. But I really like my day job. I've always played music since I was 12, and I guess I always will.

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.

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

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 didn't play football in school, but I've been a fan of football all my life. I have a fair understanding of it. Doing movies about it really helps because you know what makes them work and what doesn't.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

In aviation they have auto pilot and color radar and a lot of other instrumentation that is a backup for pilots. It's really brought the incidents of plane crashes way down. Same thing ought to happen in the medical industry, I think.

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

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.

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

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.

I spent a weekend in the White House with President Clinton, back in '99, I guess. We played golf and just hung out and talked on many subjects. I saw him several times subsequently in L.A. He's the smartest man I ever met, a great politician. Everybody was star struck around him.

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

Before I was an actor, I was never able to hold a job for more than 3 months for some reason. It just wouldn't hold my interest, so there was some way that I wound up quitting or getting fired from it. But being an actor is perfect, because movies usually take about three months to shoot. Then it's over and they say, 'Hey, great job!'

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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