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" I'm lucky. I have a high metabolism, so I pretty much eat anything and everything. "
Dennis Quaid
Pretty
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Everything
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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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" 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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Time
Together
" 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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" 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
" 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
" I've never really sought out publicity. "
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Out
Sought
" 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
" 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
" I look for a good story. Usually the best stories are the ones that are unbelievably true. 'Soul Surfer' is one of those stories. "
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Good
Best
Look
" 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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Possible
Only
" 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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Long
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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. "
Dennis Quaid
Texas
Outdoors
Grandfather
" 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 always want to find the best burger in town. "
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Best
Always
Find
" Jesus himself talked about prayer and meditation. Anything that brings you closer to the Lord, what's wrong with that? "
Dennis Quaid
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. "
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Work
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Job
" Wall Street has come to America's heartland, really. The only thing missing are the skyscrapers, you know? "
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Street
America
" 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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Kid
Key
Knowing
" 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. "
Dennis Quaid
Teen
Plan
Vet
" 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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Yourself
Going
Business
" 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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Together
Think
" I'm not really a pitcher; I just play one in the movies. "
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Just
Play
Really
" 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 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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Golf
You
Need
" 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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Someone
Strong
Story
" When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death. "
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You
Up
Break
" In aviation they have auto pilot and color radar and a lot of other instrumentation that is a backup for pilots. It's really brought the incidents of plane crashes way down. Same thing ought to happen in the medical industry, I think. "
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Way
Think
" 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
Love
" 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 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