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" 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. "
Dennis Quaid
Yourself
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Good
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" Going to the golf course every day for work? That's a good job. "
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" 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. "
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" I've always considered myself a character actor. That's the way I was trained, really. "
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" I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don't know how. "
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" Playing Bill Clinton is really, probably, the scariest time of my career. "
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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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" 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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" Movies usually find me, but I'm open to anything. "
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" I'm lucky. I have a high metabolism, so I pretty much eat anything and everything. "
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" 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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" 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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" When I choose a movie, I'll ask myself: 'Is this a movie I want to see?' "
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Ask
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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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" 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 love doing independent films, but it's very hard to make a living that way. "
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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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" I always want to find the best burger in town. "
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" 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. "
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" God is the only way you're going to make it in life, the glue that holds everything together. "
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" 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 really want to see the Cubs in the World Series. I really do. "
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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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" Everybody just wants to be famous first, and then maybe learn how to act. "
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" 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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" What I find is that we're all human beings and that it's all very similar, what we believe. At the bottom, there's really not that much difference between Christians and Muslims and Hindus and Buddhists. We all worship God. "
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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 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 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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" 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. "
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