Dennis Quaid » Quotes

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

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

"There are three things being a celebrity is good for: raising money for charity, dinner reservations and tee times." - to Golf Digest

Well, a couple of times I had people come have a talk with me, but I was operating, for the most part, on two hours of sleep a night, and I realized, I can't do this and last very long." So I cleaned up (in the early 90's) and THEN the jobs stopped coming. You clean up your life and think you're supposed to be rewarded for it, but things actually got worse. On the other hand, if I hadn't sobered up, I probably wouldn't be alive today." - On his recovery from cocaine addiction.

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

I've done so many movies that when I see them I don't really watch them.

I've been playing music since I was 12 and I like to play in a band. It takes the place of theatre for me, the live performance element.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.