Zitat des Tages von Dennis Quaid:
Family is the most important thing in life, period.
Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.
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.
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 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.
If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously.
What, like I want to look like Dick Clark? No. I think I look great with liver spots.
Golf is meaningless, but it means so much.
I judge movies on how much fun I had while I was doing them. I had a great time on 'The Right Stuff.' Doing that was fantastic. And there was the year I did 'The Rookie' and 'Far From Heaven,' which was amazing because those two different roles were just so far apart.
I really love doing what I do, being an actor. It's the greatest. You can do it until you die.
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'm lucky. I have a high metabolism, so I pretty much eat anything and everything.
I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don't know how.
I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.
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.
I want to work with great people. Great people really make you better.
I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted.
I found golf late in life, in 1990. I took some lessons and struggled. Then one day, I hit a drive that was so crisp and clean, with no vibration. There's no feeling like it. I was hooked.
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've done so many movies that when I see them I don't really watch them.
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.
Athletes are sort of part of the community at large. They have to be dedicated to what they do, and go through lots of peaks and valleys. And there's a lot of training that goes into their careers. It's a struggle. Very dramatic.
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.
That's what is great about what I do, going from one job to the other.
I'm an idol of cinema? Oh, wow.
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.
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.
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.
When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.
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.
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 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.
I always want to find the best burger in town.
Everybody just wants to be famous first, and then maybe learn how to act.
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.