Quotes & Sayings About Quaid

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. — Dennis Quaid

I went out for the football team but, you know, I was too small. That's how I wound up in drama. — Dennis Quaid

If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously. — Dennis Quaid

I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don't know how. — Dennis Quaid

My girl always jumped. It was one of the things I now realized I loved most about her. — Jay Crownover

Are you and Finn more than boss and hired hand?"
"You might say that."
"My ranch is bigger than his," Quaid teased.
"It's not the size of the ranch, darlin;. It's the heart that runs it," she answered. — Carolyn Brown

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

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. — Dennis Quaid

I've been racketeered on. — Randy Quaid

I grew up Baptist and still go to church. I myself have explored other religions, because I want to know what it is that makes other people tick. I find we're all talking about the same thing, really - it's all God. — Dennis Quaid

Gary Busey said on the Today Show yesterday that Donald Trump would make a great President. Now Trump just needs endorsements from Randy Quaid and Charlie Sheen. — Conan O'Brien

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. — Dennis Quaid

Wall Street has come to America's heartland, really. The only thing missing are the skyscrapers, you know? — Dennis Quaid

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. — Dennis Quaid

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. — Dennis Quaid

The truth [always] lies in things that have no words. — Dennis Quaid

I'm not really a pitcher; I just play one in the movies. — Dennis Quaid

I had no intention of replacing Arnold [Schwarzenegger]. There were a few things that made me want to do the movie. They were the script which had a different direction to it, and it was a chance to do a very different Quaid. I didn't read the short story until I went to college.Reading the story had a different effect on me of how I pictured him to be and the tone of the story was different. In the story, he's a bit more of an everyman. — Len Wiseman

It was real for me and that's all that matters. — Randy Quaid

I really want to see the Cubs in the World Series. I really do. — Dennis Quaid

I am being embezzled by a monstrous ring of accountants, estate planners and lawyers who are mercilessly slandering me and trying to kill my career and, I believe, murder me in order to gain control of my royalties. — Randy Quaid

I would like my kids to follow their bliss. — Dennis Quaid

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. — Dennis Quaid

I love doing independent films, but it's very hard to make a living that way. — Dennis Quaid

It's as predictable as the sun rising in the morning. Every time Barack Obama's poll numbers rise you can be certain he's done something else to weaken the country. He's empowered a base that loathes American excellence. — Dennis Quaid

I found myself in network always trying to play catch up because once things get going there's no time to fix this and that. And also the writing, it was more inclined to be by committee in network which drowns out the purity and the voice of the show. — Dennis Quaid

I was very uncomfortable with all the attention when it first started happening to me. I retreated quite a bit from the world, both physically and emotionally. But then you just accept that you can't control what the rest of the world thinks or does. — Dennis Quaid

As I grow older, I put all life's bulls**t aside. I think the process of the laying off of the bulls**t starts around 40. Before that, most men have their heads stuck in their ass. After 40, you see things differently. You've found yourself. You're accepting yourself and what you got from life. — Dennis Quaid

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. — Dennis Quaid

The movement of Pakistan which the Quaid-e-Azam launched was ethical in inspiration and ideological in content. The story of this movement is a story of the ideals of equality, fraternity and social and economic justice struggling against the forces of domination, exploitation, intolerance and tyranny. — Fatima Jinnah

I love politics, but I wouldn't want to be involved in it. Too little money, too much work! — Dennis Quaid

I didn't play football in school, but I've been a fan of football all my life. I have a fair understanding of it. Doing movies about it really helps because you know what makes them work and what doesn't. — Dennis Quaid

Just about every actor wants to be a Disney cartoon voice at some point. — Randy Quaid

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. — Dennis Quaid

Honestly, it was pretty challenging working with a talking raccoon. — Randy Quaid

And Quaid knew, meeting the clown's vacant stare through an air turned bloody, that
there was worse in the world than dread. Worse than death itself.
There was pain without hope of healing. There was life that refused to end, long after the
mind had begged the body to cease. And worst, there were dreams come true. — Clive Barker

I want to work with great people. Great people really make you better. — Dennis Quaid

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. — Dennis Quaid

My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story. That's what directors are, they're storytellers because they're directing where your focus is going to be as an audience. — Dennis Quaid

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. — Dennis Quaid

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. — Dennis Quaid

Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore. — Dennis Quaid

It's great to get paid for what you love doing most. To enjoy your work. And to follow that. It's important. — Dennis Quaid

Now with the Internet, a celebrity is fair game, and it's all designed to sell advertising space. — Randy Quaid

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

I already did everything one time and that makes that one time stick out. — Randy Quaid

There are three things being a celebrity is good for: raising money for charity, dinner reservations and tee times. — Dennis Quaid

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

There's no way that I could do a 9 to 5 job. There's no way. I was not cut out for that. You come in and you work for three months on the one job. They say, 'Great,' you know, and you're on to the next one - and you never even got fired. It's wonderful. — Dennis Quaid

I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor. — Randy Quaid

I'd love to do a golf movie. I turned down Don Johnson's role in 'Tin Cup.' I regret that. — Dennis Quaid

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. — Dennis Quaid

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. — Dennis Quaid

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. — Dennis Quaid

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. — Dennis Quaid

I love playing characters that are bigger than life and maybe have a darker side that they present to the world. Those are good characters. — Randy Quaid

Back then, people were throwing their underwear onstage. I remember taking eight pairs of my own underwear to the cleaners and getting only four back. — Dennis Quaid

I don't trust Santa Barbara as far as I can spit. I am afraid that if I went back there, it's possible that I could be run through their system, their judicial system, and wind up in some county jail where I could be killed and I'm not gonna take that chance. — Randy Quaid

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. — Dennis Quaid

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. — Dennis Quaid

'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. — Dennis Quaid

I did 'Lone Star Love' in 2007 with Randy Quaid, and that was supposed to come to Broadway at the Belasco and a marquee went up and everything ... and it all fell apart, and that marquee came right down, and we got severance pay. And, it was very sad. — Kara Lindsay

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. — Dennis Quaid

What, like I want to look like Dick Clark? No. I think I look great with liver spots. — Dennis Quaid

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

I'm an idol of cinema? Oh, wow. — Dennis Quaid

If we never felt sorrow, we'd never recognize bliss. — Dennis Quaid

I was a really avid bowler when I was a teenager. I had about a 210-220 average. I had blisters on my fingers. — Dennis Quaid

Acting's more of a business for me now. — Randy Quaid

When I was a kid and the carnival would come to the shopping centre, I'd go down and talk to all the people running the rides. I like that whole lifestyle, moving from town to town in a nomadic existence. — Randy Quaid

Everybody just wants to be famous first, and then maybe learn how to act. — Dennis Quaid

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. — Dennis Quaid

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. — Dennis Quaid

My real-life athletic career was not very much. I played Little League baseball. — Dennis Quaid

I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up. — Jack Quaid

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

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. — Dennis Quaid

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

I kept getting told, 'You need to bulk up. Burgers and shakes. Burgers and shakes.' That's never been my thing. — Jack Quaid

I tilted her head back as far as it would go without dunking her back in the icy water and started to breathe into her mouth. I breathed in all the love I had for her. I gave her air flavored with my confidence that we were meant to be, and laced with the knowledge that she made me a better kind of man. I breathed out and filled her lungs with the future I wanted to share with her and all the memories I wanted to make with her. — Jay Crownover

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

I love my brother. I miss my brother. — Randy Quaid

I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics. — Dennis Quaid

If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours ... what are you? — Randy Quaid

It's possible for people to gain control of every facet of your life. — Randy Quaid

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. — Dennis Quaid

Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Scholars still debate whether Jinnah's equally adamant insistence on a full Pakistan was a bluff. An influential school of thought holds that the Quaid always intended to settle for a united India, after he had extracted as much power and autonomy as he could for himself and the five "Muslim" provinces. The League leader was perfectly rational, Liaquat told Mountbatten: he understood, or could at least be persuaded to understand, how fragile and unworkable a shrunken Pakistan would be.79 — Nisid Hajari

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. — Dennis Quaid

Playing Bill Clinton is really, probably, the scariest time of my career. — Dennis Quaid

I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family. — Randy Quaid

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. — Dennis Quaid

What I wish more than anything is that I could start getting press about my work as an actor. That is what I do. I'm not a criminal. — Randy Quaid

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

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. — Dennis Quaid

What is great about art and artists is that we get to ask the questions, even though we may never know the answers. — Dennis Quaid

I've never really sought out publicity. — Dennis Quaid

What they will do is, you know the tabloids. They'll take one element of a story that may be true and they'll build everything around it. Take a picture and invent a story around it. — Dennis Quaid

My finances have been decimated by a group of people, such as my ex-attorney, my ex-business manager, and an estate planner, specifically. And they have conspired together to - to co-op my corporations, put in trustees without my knowledge. — Randy Quaid

I would never walk off any show. — Randy Quaid