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" I've done so many movies that when I see them I don't really watch them. "
Dennis Quaid
Watch
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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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" God is the only way you're going to make it in life, the glue that holds everything together. "
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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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" 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. "
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" You go to Main Street, and Wal-Mart is coming to town and kicking out all the mom and pop stores. All the people that were in the mom and pop stores are now working for Wal-Mart. "
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" 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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" 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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" 'Legion' was a lot of fun to shoot. It was a real unique apocalypse scenario that takes place in a diner out in the desert. Very much like a drive-in B-movie, but in a good way. "
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" Going to the golf course every day for work? That's a good job. "
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" 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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" I've had varying luck with comedy in the past, but I'd really like to give that another go. I don't know if I'd chase down a part, but if the right thing came along I could certainly see myself stepping into that zone. "
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" 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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" 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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" I went out for the football team but, you know, I was too small. That's how I wound up in drama. "
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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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" Everybody just wants to be famous first, and then maybe learn how to act. "
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" Golf is meaningless, but it means so much. "
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" When I get a script, it's the only time that I get to be an audience member with the first-time experience of that movie. That's the first and only time. "
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" I have always done my own stunts, and I have been in hundreds of fights in films, but I have never been in a fist fight outside the movies. "
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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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" 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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Problem
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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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" 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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" 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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