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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. "
Dennis Quaid
Love
Personality
Work
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" I don't know if I'd want to be a Secret Service agent. In the movies, it's exciting and romantic and all that. Really, most of their job is standing in a hallway for 12 hours making sure somebody doesn't come through a doorway off of a stairwell. "
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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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" Surfing is like golf: You're always battling, and it keeps knocking you down. There are a lot of wipeouts. But when you stay with it and catch that wave, you really taste it. It's magic. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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Key
Knowing
" Family is the most important thing in life, period. "
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" I'm not really a pitcher; I just play one in the movies. "
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" 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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Down
Cup
" 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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Outdoors
Grandfather
" 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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Done
Like
" Everybody just wants to be famous first, and then maybe learn how to act. "
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Famous
Act
First
" My real-life athletic career was not very much. I played Little League baseball. "
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Baseball
Much
Career
" I really want to see the Cubs in the World Series. I really do. "
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See
World
Cubs
" 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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Feeling
" 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 like acting and being a musician. It's like comparing apples and oranges. But I really like my day job. I've always played music since I was 12, and I guess I always will. "
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Music
Acting
Always
" I've always considered myself a character actor. That's the way I was trained, really. "
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Always
Actor
Character
" I would like my kids to follow their bliss. "
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Kids
" 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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Drama
Team
Got
" I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to. "
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Feel
Resistance
" 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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" 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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Love
Good
" Going to the golf course every day for work? That's a good job. "
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Day
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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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People
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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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Agenda
Things
Done
" I love doing independent films, but it's very hard to make a living that way. "
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Doing
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Love
" 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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Church
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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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Growing Up
Thought
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