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" I'm not really a pitcher; I just play one in the movies. "
Dennis Quaid
Just
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Really
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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 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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" 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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" Families need a spiritual bond with one another and with God. God is the only way you're going to make it in life, the glue that holds everything together. "
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" 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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" 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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" I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to. "
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" A lot of people that I started out with, I don't know where they are. I guess it takes tenacity to still be doing this, and luck, but I've been very blessed. "
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" I've done so many movies that when I see them I don't really watch them. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I'm lucky. I have a high metabolism, so I pretty much eat anything and everything. "
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" 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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" Jesus himself talked about prayer and meditation. Anything that brings you closer to the Lord, what's wrong with that? "
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" I've never really sought out publicity. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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