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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Dennis Quaid

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 don't know if I'd want to be a Secret Service agent. In the movies, it's exciting and romantic and all that. Really, most of their job is standing in a hallway for 12 hours making sure somebody doesn't come through a doorway off of a stairwell. "

" I always want to find the best burger in town. "

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

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

" 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!' "

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

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

Dennis Quaid

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

" What they will do is, you know the tabloids. They'll take one element of a story that may be true and they'll build everything around it. Take a picture and invent a story around it. "

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

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

" It's hard for two actors to be together. Take the traveling, for instance. It winds up being a long distance relationship, all the time, because one's working here and one's working there, or one's staying at home and one's off someplace else. "

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

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

" 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. "

Dennis Quaid

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

Dennis Quaid

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

Dennis Quaid

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" I was a guy back in the Eighties who was one movie away from a huge career, which at that time didn't happen. In the Nineties, I worked a lot, but it was kind of, 'Get out there and dig and find things.' Then I guess 'The Rookie' and 'Far From Heaven' were referred to as my comeback. "

" 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. "

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

" I grew up Baptist and still go to church. I myself have explored other religions, because I want to know what it is that makes other people tick. I find we're all talking about the same thing, really - it's all God. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Dennis Quaid

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