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" 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. "
Dennis Quaid
Day
Drive
Feeling
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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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Job
" I want to work with great people. Great people really make you better. "
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Great
Better
" 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. "
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" 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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" 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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Vet
" 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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Us
Teacher
" 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. "
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Luck
Blessed
People
" 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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Amazing
Fun
Great
" I'd love to do a golf movie. I turned down Don Johnson's role in 'Tin Cup.' I regret that. "
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Golf
Down
Cup
" I've had varying luck with comedy in the past, but I'd really like to give that another go. I don't know if I'd chase down a part, but if the right thing came along I could certainly see myself stepping into that zone. "
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Down
Know
Luck
" 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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Really
Fingers
Avid
" I really love doing what I do, being an actor. It's the greatest. You can do it until you die. "
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You Can Do It
You
Love
" I've done so many movies that when I see them I don't really watch them. "
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Watch
Many
Movies
" Playing Bill Clinton is really, probably, the scariest time of my career. "
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Really
Time
Career
" 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. "
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Strategy
Possible
Only
" 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 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. "
Dennis Quaid
Growing Up
Thought
People
" I've always considered myself a character actor. That's the way I was trained, really. "
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Always
Actor
Character
" 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. "
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Long
Time
Together
" I really want to see the Cubs in the World Series. I really do. "
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See
World
Cubs
" When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death. "
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You
Up
Break
" 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. "
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I Can
Try
Movies
" Family is the most important thing in life, period. "
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Period
Important
Most
" I went out for the football team but, you know, I was too small. That's how I wound up in drama. "
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Know
Team
Small
" Jesus himself talked about prayer and meditation. Anything that brings you closer to the Lord, what's wrong with that? "
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Prayer
Meditation
You
" 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. "
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Man
Golf
Great
" I'm an idol of cinema? Oh, wow. "
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Idol
Wow
Oh
" 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
" Your partner has to live with the best and the worst part of you, and they're affected by it. "
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Best
Your
You
" You don't bad-mouth your ex or anything like that. The key is your kid knowing that both parents still love him and are there for him. "
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Kid
Key
Knowing