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" I love doing independent films, but it's very hard to make a living that way. "
Dennis Quaid
Doing
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Love
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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 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. "
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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. "
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" I guess I could say I'm an actor, which I am, but that sounds like I'm putting down being a movie star, which, let's face it, is what I've become to many people. For myself, I'm a guy who was very insecure from about age 14 until the day I hit my 30th birthday. "
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" There are three things being a celebrity is good for: raising money for charity, dinner reservations and tee times. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" I want to work with great people. Great people really make you better. "
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" 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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" Family is the most important thing in life, period. "
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" I'm an idol of cinema? Oh, wow. "
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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 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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" 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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" 'Legion' was a lot of fun to shoot. It was a real unique apocalypse scenario that takes place in a diner out in the desert. Very much like a drive-in B-movie, but in a good way. "
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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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" What, like I want to look like Dick Clark? No. I think I look great with liver spots. "
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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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" Going to the golf course every day for work? That's a good job. "
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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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" I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to. "
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" 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. "
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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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" Wall Street has come to America's heartland, really. The only thing missing are the skyscrapers, you know? "
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