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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. "
Dennis Quaid
Eat
Used
Now
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" One thing I've really never had a problem with was memorizing lines. Most of the time I don't memorize the lines until we're on the set shooting the scene. "
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Never
" 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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Go
" 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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" 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. "
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Love
Now
Enjoy
" 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
" Horseracing and ranch horses are two different animals. You're getting race horses out and running and running them. It can be really problematic. A thoroughbred's very delicate. "
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Ranch
Race
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" Playing Bill Clinton is really, probably, the scariest time of my career. "
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Time
Career
" 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
" 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 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
" 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
" 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 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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Love
Personality
Work
" When I choose a movie, I'll ask myself: 'Is this a movie I want to see?' "
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Choose
Ask
Movie
" I went out for the football team but, you know, I was too small. That's how I wound up in drama. "
Dennis Quaid
Know
Team
Small
" 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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Birthday
People
Myself
" I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. I grew up in Houston. Gordo Cooper was my favorite astronaut. "
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Houston
Favorite
Grew
" That's what is great about what I do, going from one job to the other. "
Dennis Quaid
Great
Going
About
" 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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Human
Difference
God
" 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. "
Dennis Quaid
You
Always
Down
" Certainly I'm a Christian first and foremost. But I do believe in religious tolerance and finding the commonality between all of us. I think that's how we're all going to come together. "
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Believe
Together
Think
" 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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True
Be True
You
" 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
" 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. "
Dennis Quaid
Work
Great
Job
" 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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Three
Great
Job
" 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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World
Without
Everyone
" I love being a dad. Basically it's the most gratifying, rewarding relationship in life. But, at the same time, it certainly is the most challenging. "
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Love
Life
Same
" My real-life athletic career was not very much. I played Little League baseball. "
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Baseball
Much
Career
" 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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" 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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Enjoy