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
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.
I've been down to a 1 twice, and every time I get down there I start playing badly. I'm playing like a 13 right now. I have no idea why. It's all between the ears.
It's the most beautiful setting in golf and you get to play with the best players in the world. It puts pressure on your game and it makes you that much better. It's just a magical setting.
I didn't play football in school, but I've been a fan of football all my life. I have a fair understanding of it. Doing movies about it really helps because you know what makes them work and what doesn't.
I'm not really a pitcher; I just play one in the movies.
I found myself in network always trying to play catch up because once things get going there's no time to fix this and that. And also the writing, it was more inclined to be by committee in network which drowns out the purity and the voice of the show.
I've spent about a year of my life here between the four movies I've filmed. I can't imagine how devastated people must feel.
I wasn't interested in doing a baseball story. My favorite sports movies transcend the sports that they are about.
I wasn't interested in doing a baseball story.
I would like to work with Todd Phillips of 'The Hangover'. I would like to do more comedies; it would be a lot of fun. No actors in particular. I don't consciously seek out things to do.
I still have my original love for acting. That's why I feel so lucky. I think that's what sustains me in the sort of leaner times.
I didn't want to throw like an actress.
One thing I've really never had a problem with was memorizing lines. Most of the time I don't memorize the lines until we're on the set shooting the scene.
Movies usually find me, but I'm open to anything.