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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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" 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. "

Dennis Quaid

Growing Up

Thought

People

" 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. "

" 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. "

Dennis Quaid

Lucky

Think

" I love being a dad. Basically it's the most gratifying, rewarding relationship in life. But, at the same time, it certainly is the most challenging. "

" I love being a dad, and I'm good at it. Kids teach you about life, like how not to focus on yourself so much. "

" 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. "

" Clinton knew how to get things done. He was battling the Republicans, and then he basically took a lot of their agenda and made it his own. That's what Obama's not doing. "

" 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. "

" I want to work with great people. Great people really make you better. "

" I could never hold a job for more than three months, which works out well because that's how long a movie shoots. "

Dennis Quaid

Job

Long

" I really want to see the Cubs in the World Series. I really do. "

" Your partner has to live with the best and the worst part of you, and they're affected by it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" God is the only way you're going to make it in life, the glue that holds everything together. "

" Playing Bill Clinton is really, probably, the scariest time of my career. "

" I would like to work with Todd Phillips of 'The Hangover'. I would like to do more comedies; it would be a lot of fun. No actors in particular. I don't consciously seek out things to do. "

Dennis Quaid

Work

Fun

" 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. "

" I directed a movie back in the '90s which had calf roping in it, and I got into it quite a bit back then. "

" I've never really sought out publicity. "

" '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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Dennis Quaid

Training

Peaks

" I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted. "

Dennis Quaid

Everything

Important

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "