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" What, like I want to look like Dick Clark? No. I think I look great with liver spots. "
Dennis Quaid
Liver
Think
Want
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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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You Can Do It
You
Love
" '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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Fun
Place
Unique
" 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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Growing Up
Thought
People
" 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. "
Dennis Quaid
Fight
Done
Always
" 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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Drama
Team
Got
" Family is the most important thing in life, period. "
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Period
Important
Most
" I want to work with great people. Great people really make you better. "
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People
Great
Better
" 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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Texas
Outdoors
Grandfather
" I've always considered myself a character actor. That's the way I was trained, really. "
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Always
Actor
Character
" I'm not really a pitcher; I just play one in the movies. "
Dennis Quaid
Just
Play
Really
" 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
" 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
" That's what is great about what I do, going from one job to the other. "
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Great
Going
About
" I've never really sought out publicity. "
Dennis Quaid
Never
Out
Sought
" I judge movies on how much fun I had while I was doing them. I had a great time on 'The Right Stuff.' Doing that was fantastic. And there was the year I did 'The Rookie' and 'Far From Heaven,' which was amazing because those two different roles were just so far apart. "
Dennis Quaid
Amazing
Fun
Great
" Golf is meaningless, but it means so much. "
Dennis Quaid
Means
Golf
Much
" Your partner has to live with the best and the worst part of you, and they're affected by it. "
Dennis Quaid
Best
Your
You
" When I choose a movie, I'll ask myself: 'Is this a movie I want to see?' "
Dennis Quaid
Choose
Ask
Movie
" I'm an idol of cinema? Oh, wow. "
Dennis Quaid
Idol
Wow
Oh
" 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!' "
Dennis Quaid
Three
Great
Job
" When I watch a movie that I've been in, I'm watching it, but I usually remember what I was doing at that time, what was going on in my life. "
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Doing
Remember
Life
" 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 Can
Try
Movies
" When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death. "
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You
Up
Break
" My real-life athletic career was not very much. I played Little League baseball. "
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Baseball
Much
Career
" 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. "
Dennis Quaid
Human
Difference
God
" 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. "
Dennis Quaid
Long
Time
Together
" 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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Eat
Used
Now
" Movies usually find me, but I'm open to anything. "
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Find
Open
Anything
" 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 have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to. "
Dennis Quaid
Change
Feel
Resistance