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" Playing Bill Clinton is really, probably, the scariest time of my career. "
Dennis Quaid
Really
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" 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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" I learned to surf for 'Soul Surfer.' 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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" 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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" Wall Street has come to America's heartland, really. The only thing missing are the skyscrapers, you know? "
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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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" I don't know if I'd want to be a Secret Service agent. In the movies, it's exciting and romantic and all that. Really, most of their job is standing in a hallway for 12 hours making sure somebody doesn't come through a doorway off of a stairwell. "
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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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" I'm lucky. I have a high metabolism, so I pretty much eat anything and everything. "
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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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" I've done so many movies that when I see them I don't really watch them. "
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" 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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" 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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" Family is the most important thing in life, period. "
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Most
" My real-life athletic career was not very much. I played Little League baseball. "
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Career
" 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 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 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'm an idol of cinema? Oh, wow. "
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Oh
" 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 never really sought out publicity. "
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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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" 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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" Going to the golf course every day for work? That's a good job. "
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" I would like my kids to follow their bliss. "
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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. "
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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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People
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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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Done
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" I really want to see the Cubs in the World Series. I really do. "
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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 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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