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Dennis Quaid Biography

Dennis William Quaid (born April 9, 1954) is an American actor known for a wide variety of dramatic and comedic roles. First gaining widespread attention in the 1980s, his career rebounded in the late 1990s after he overcame an addiction to drugs and an eating disorder. Some of his notable credits include Breaking Away (1979), The Right Stuff (1983), Wyatt Earp (1994), The Parent Trap (1998), Frequency (2000), The Rookie (2002), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), Vantage Point (2008), Footloose (2011), and Soul Surfer (2011). For his role in Far from Heaven (2002) he won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor among other accolades.

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When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.

Break Up, Broken Heart, Identity, Like, Love, Whole

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

Careers, Bills, Clinton, Time, Career, Bill

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.

Certain, Country, Morning, Numbers, Weaken

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.

Become, Couple, Early, Summer, Worked, Years

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

Acting, Although, Know, Love Yourself, Luck, Making

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.

Accepting, Bulls, Men, Starts, Think, Thinking

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.

Home, Long, Long Distance Relationship, Take, Time, Wind

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!'

Jobs, Months, Movies, Perfect, Quitting, Way

I've always considered myself a character actor. That's the way I was trained, really.

Actors, Character, Considered, Trained, Way

I am very interest in the human condition. That is what I love about acting. I like studying different people and their psychosis. I like discovering what makes them tick. I always find that with any character I play. I need to find out what makes them tick.

Acting, Character, Condition, Discovering, People, Play

You have to have the ability to remake yourself. Whatever that is. Every several years. . . Every five to 10 years.

Ability, Five, Remake, Several, Years

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.

Ball, Golf, Hit, Needs, Yards

'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.

Apocalypse, Desert, Diner, Fun, Real, Unique

Well, there's two things I have criteria for doing a film: The script, which is the story, and the filmmaker, and it's a filmmaker's medium. I like really strong directors, and so when I do a film, I'm out there to serve the director, really, which is in turn to serve the script, to serve the director cause he's the one making the film. I relied on Todd Haynes for that.

Film, Filmmaker, Haynes, Making, Strong, Turn

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

Change, Resistance, Things Change, Used

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.

Career, Careers, Character, Choices, Different, Intentional

I don't have a grand strategy for my career. I just look for good material, and good stories. I look for good scripts.

Career, Good, Look, Material, Strategy

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.

Eight, People, Underwear, Remember, Throwing

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

Day, Golf, Good Job, Jobs, Work

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.

Dad, Kids, Focus, Good, Teach

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