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" God is the only way you're going to make it in life, the glue that holds everything together. "
Dennis Quaid
You
Life
Together
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" I've done so many movies that when I see them I don't really watch them. "
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" It's great to get paid for what you love doing most. To enjoy your work. And to follow that. It's important. "
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" Playing Bill Clinton is really, probably, the scariest time of my career. "
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" I have a ranch in Montana, but it's not a real working ranch. I've always liked the outdoors. I come from Texas. My grandfather was a farmer; that's as close as I come. "
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" I grew up in Houston, and I remember we had separate drinking fountains, and black people sat in the balcony of the theater... We had an African-American housekeeper growing up who was really like my second mother. I thought it was silly - hatred just because of the color of somebody's skin. "
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" Everybody just wants to be famous first, and then maybe learn how to act. "
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" I love doing independent films, but it's very hard to make a living that way. "
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" Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore. "
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Sometimes
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" 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!' "
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Three
Great
Job
" In my early teen years, I wanted to become a vet. That was my plan. I worked as a veterinarian's assistant for a couple of summers. "
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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. "
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" When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death. "
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Up
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" I'm lucky. I have a high metabolism, so I pretty much eat anything and everything. "
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" I'm an idol of cinema? Oh, wow. "
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Oh
" 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. "
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Football
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" 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. "
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Great
" 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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" I really want to see the Cubs in the World Series. I really do. "
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" I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics. "
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" That's what is great about what I do, going from one job to the other. "
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" Golf is meaningless, but it means so much. "
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" I don't see how it's a risky thing to take a great part with a great director and a great script. That, to me, is not really a dangerous, risky proposition. It's actually a really good choice. "
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Dangerous
Good
" When I was in my mid-20s, I traveled a lot around the world, and the question I had for everyone I talked to was, 'What is your conception of God?' I found that everybody basically felt the same: God is within and without. He's in everything. "
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World
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Everyone
" I was a really avid bowler when I was a teenager. I had about a 210-220 average. I had blisters on my fingers. "
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Fingers
Avid
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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