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" I love to work. I actually enjoy it now more than I did when I was in my 20s. I don't know why, but I'm just grateful. "
Dennis Quaid
Love
Now
Enjoy
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Going to the golf course every day for work? That's a good job. "
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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 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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" 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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Strong
Story
" What they will do is, you know the tabloids. They'll take one element of a story that may be true and they'll build everything around it. Take a picture and invent a story around it. "
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Be True
You
" Movies usually find me, but I'm open to anything. "
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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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Love
Yourself
" 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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" God is the only way you're going to make it in life, the glue that holds everything together. "
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Life
Together
" 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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Acting
Always
" 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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" 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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Going
Business
" 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
" 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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Always
Down
" 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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Alone
Better
" I would like to work with Todd Phillips of 'The Hangover'. I would like to do more comedies; it would be a lot of fun. No actors in particular. I don't consciously seek out things to do. "
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Fun
" I really want to see the Cubs in the World Series. I really do. "
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World
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" I always want to find the best burger in town. "
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Always
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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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" 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. "
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" 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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Me
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" I would like my kids to follow their bliss. "
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Kids
" 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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" Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore. "
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Sometimes
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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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