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'd love to do a golf movie. I turned down Don Johnson's role in 'Tin Cup.' I regret that.
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 spent a weekend in the White House with President Clinton, back in '99, I guess. We played golf and just hung out and talked on many subjects. I saw him several times subsequently in L.A. He's the smartest man I ever met, a great politician. Everybody was star struck around him.
I found golf late in life, in 1990. I took some lessons and struggled. Then one day, I hit a drive that was so crisp and clean, with no vibration. There's no feeling like it. I was hooked.
In aviation they have auto pilot and color radar and a lot of other instrumentation that is a backup for pilots. It's really brought the incidents of plane crashes way down. Same thing ought to happen in the medical industry, I think.
My real-life athletic career was not very much. I played Little League baseball.
I used to eat a lot of fish, but I've been shying away from it because of the mercury thing. I eat more beef and chicken now.
I've always considered myself a character actor. That's the way I was trained, really.
I've done so many movies that when I see them I don't really watch them.
I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.
Jesus himself talked about prayer and meditation. Anything that brings you closer to the Lord, what's wrong with that?
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.
That's what is great about what I do, going from one job to the other.