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" 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. "
Dennis Quaid
Golf
You
Need
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" 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. "
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Thoughts
Alone
Better
" When I get a script, it's the only time that I get to be an audience member with the first-time experience of that movie. That's the first and only time. "
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Experience
Only
First
" I've always considered myself a character actor. That's the way I was trained, really. "
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Always
Actor
Character
" 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. "
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Day
Drive
Feeling
" 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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Heaven
Time
Career
" If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously. "
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Yourself
Going
Business
" I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted. "
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More
Everything
Important
" Everybody just wants to be famous first, and then maybe learn how to act. "
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Famous
Act
First
" I'm not really a pitcher; I just play one in the movies. "
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Just
Play
Really
" 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. "
Dennis Quaid
Texas
Outdoors
Grandfather
" 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. "
Dennis Quaid
Agenda
Things
Done
" One thing I've really never had a problem with was memorizing lines. Most of the time I don't memorize the lines until we're on the set shooting the scene. "
Dennis Quaid
Lines
Problem
Never
" God is the only way you're going to make it in life, the glue that holds everything together. "
Dennis Quaid
You
Life
Together
" 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. "
Dennis Quaid
Man
Golf
Great
" Movies usually find me, but I'm open to anything. "
Dennis Quaid
Find
Open
Anything
" 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
Work
Great
Job
" I'm an idol of cinema? Oh, wow. "
Dennis Quaid
Idol
Wow
Oh
" Families need a spiritual bond with one another and with God. God is the only way you're going to make it in life, the glue that holds everything together. "
Dennis Quaid
Together
Life
Bond
" I always wanted to be an astronaut. "
Dennis Quaid
Wanted
Astronaut
Always
" 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. "
Dennis Quaid
Fight
Done
Always
" 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. "
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Color
Way
Think
" I was a really avid bowler when I was a teenager. I had about a 210-220 average. I had blisters on my fingers. "
Dennis Quaid
Really
Fingers
Avid
" 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. "
Dennis Quaid
Myself
Church
Find
" 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. "
Dennis Quaid
Believe
Together
Think
" I directed a movie back in the '90s which had calf roping in it, and I got into it quite a bit back then. "
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Which
Got
Then
" 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. "
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Lucky
Me
Think
" I could never hold a job for more than three months, which works out well because that's how long a movie shoots. "
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Job
Long
More
" 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. "
Dennis Quaid
Doing
Remember
Life
" I'm lucky. I have a high metabolism, so I pretty much eat anything and everything. "
Dennis Quaid
Pretty
High
Everything
" 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. "
Dennis Quaid
Eat
Used
Now