Dennis Quaid Quotes

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

I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I’m used to.

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!’

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I found that you don’t have to do drugs to have a great time. Music is a great drug on its own.

Going to the golf course every day for work? That’s a good job.

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.

‘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.