Quotes from Dennis 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

I always wanted to be an astronaut.

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. Its like death.

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

I love politics, but I wouldn't want to be involved in it. Too little money, too much work! I don't really have the personality for that.

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