Dennis Quaid - biography

“I love acting and making your own luck.  You have to recreate yourself, I guess.  Although, I don’t know how.”

“I wanted to play [NASA astronaut] Gordon Cooper in The Right Stuff a year before they even thought about the movie.  I mean, he fell asleep on the launch pad.”

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

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

“I’ve done so many movies that when I see them I don’t really watch them.”

“Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it’s not all that important to me anymore.”

“I can’t hit a ball more than 200 yards.  I have no butt.  You need a butt if you’re going to hit a golf ball.”

“I won’t show my wanker.  There’s got to be some mystery left.”

“People come up: ‘God, I know you, I know you!’ And I say, ‘Yeah, we went to high school together.’ And for a few seconds they’ll actually believe it.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“That’s what is great about what I do, going from one job to the other.”

“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.”

“What, like I want to look like Dick Clark?  No.  I think I look great with liver spots.”

“When I was 15, I had my own comedy act - even played a strip joint once, until my mother found out.  I remember a girl took off her clothes to the theme of Romeo and Juliette.”

“When you break up, your whole identity is shattered.  It’s like death.”

“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 has appeared in the following films:
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977)
September 30, 1955 (1977)
The Long Riders (1980)
Gorp (1980)
All Night Long (1981)
The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia (1981)
Jaws 3-D (1983)
Tough Enough (1983)
The Right Stuff (1983)
Dreamscape (1984)
Enemy Mine (1985)
The Big Easy (1986)
Innerspace (1987)
D.O.A. (1988)
Everybody’s All-American (1988)
Great Balls of Fire! (1989)
Come See the Paradise (1990)
Postcards from the Edge (1990)
Wilder Napalm (1993)
Flesh and Bone (1993)
Undercover Blues (1993)
Wyatt Earp (1994)
Something to Talk About (1995)
Dragonheart (1996)
Criminal Intent (1997)
Playing by Heart (1998)
Savior (1998)
The Parent Trap (1998)
Any Given Sunday (1999)
Traffic (2000)
Frequency (2000)
Far from Heaven (2002)
The Rookie (2002)
Cold Creek Manor (2003)
In Good Company (2004)
Flight of the Phoenix (2004)
The Alamo (2004)
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Yours, Mine and Ours (2005)
American Dreamz (2006)
Terra (2007)
Smart People (2008)
The Express (2008)
Vantage Point (2008)
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)
Horsemen (2009)
Legion (2009)
Pandorum (2009)
Beneath the Darkness (2011)
Footloose (2011)
Soul Surfer (2011)
The Words (2012)
What to Expect When You’re Expecting (2012)