111 Top Quotes By Dennis Quaid That Will Make You Go Hmm…
Actor Dennis Quaid, best known for portraying dramatic and comedic roles since the late 1980s, unwittingly became a patient-safety advocate after his ten-day-old twins were mistakenly administered a high dosage of heparin, for which he had filed a lawsuit against the drug manufacturer. He subsequently produced a series of documentaries about preventable medical errors. In an article that he co-wrote, he argued that sharing patient stories had a positive influence in motivating change in healthcare. He also donates the proceeds from the annual golf tournament, the Dennis Quaid Charity Weekend, to support local children's charities. Here are some of his quotes from his speeches, interviews, and media appearances. He often talks about children, acting, life, relationships, politics, and religion.
I found that you don't have to do drugs to have a great time. Music is a great drug on its own.
I don't have a grand strategy for my career. I just look for good material, and good stories. I look for good scripts.
You have to have the ability to remake yourself. Whatever that is. Every several years... Every five to 10 years.
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.
I'd love to do a golf movie. I turned down Don Johnson's role in 'Tin Cup.' I regret that.
I've always considered myself a character actor. That's the way I was trained, really.
I try to be eclectic in my choice of films. If I've done anything that's intentional in my career, it's to try to do as many different types of characters and as many different types of genres of movies that I can.
'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.
My family is the most important thing in the world to me, too, before anything else.
That's what is great about what I do, going from one job to the other.
What is great about art and artists is that we get to ask the questions, even though we may never know the answers.
I'm not really a pitcher; I just play one in the movies.
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.
If we never felt sorrow, we'd never recognize bliss.
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.
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.
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.
I love politics, but I wouldn't want to be involved in it. Too little money, too much work! I don't really have the personality for that.
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.
Clinton knew how to get things done. He was battling the Republicans, and then he basically took a lot of their agenda and made it his own. That's what Obama's not doing.
I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. I grew up in Houston. Gordo Cooper was my favorite astronaut.
It's about... my only strategy I've ever had in my career is to do as many different types of roles as possible, as many different types of genres. It keeps the fire in my belly.
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.
Going to the golf course every day for work? That's a good job.
A lot of people that I started out with, I don't know where they are. I guess it takes tenacity to still be doing this, and luck, but I've been very blessed.
I would like to work with Todd Phillips of 'The Hangover'. I would like to do more comedies; it would be a lot of fun. No actors in particular. I don't consciously seek out things to do.
Movies usually find me, but I'm open to anything.
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.
If I've done anything intentional about my career, is that I really have not - I've chosen to try to do as many different types of things as possible. That's really what I like to do.
