Dennis Quaid
Dennis Quaid
Dennis William Quaid 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 1990s after he overcame an addiction to drugs and an eating disorder. Some of his notable credits include Breaking Away, The Right Stuff, Wyatt Earp, The Rookie, The Day After Tomorrow, Traffic, Vantage Point, Footloose, Frequency, The Parent Trap, Yours, Mine & Ours and Soul Surfer. For his role in Far...
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth9 April 1954
CityHouston, TX
Everybody just wants to be famous first, and then maybe learn how to act.
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.
Going to the golf course every day for work? That's a good job.
Golf is meaningless, but it means so much.
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 could never hold a job for more than three months, which works out well because that's how long a movie shoots.
I directed a movie back in the '90s which had calf roping in it, and I got into it quite a bit back then.
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.
I look for a good story. Usually the best stories are the ones that are unbelievably true. 'Soul Surfer' is one of those stories.
I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don't know how.
Playing Bill Clinton is really, probably, the scariest time of my career.
Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.
That's what is great about what I do, going from one job to the other.
What I find is that we're all human beings and that it's all very similar, what we believe. At the bottom, there's really not that much difference between Christians and Muslims and Hindus and Buddhists. We all worship God.