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
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'd love to do a golf movie. I turned down Don Johnson's role in 'Tin Cup.' I regret that.
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?
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 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.
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.
What they will do is, you know the tabloids. They'll take one element of a story that may be true and they'll build everything around it. Take a picture and invent a story around it.