Top 60 Dennis Quaid Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I want to work with great people. Great people really make you better.”

— Dennis Quaid

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

— Dennis Quaid

3. “I always wanted to be an astronaut.”

— Dennis Quaid

4. “If we never felt sorrow, we’d never recognize bliss.”

— Dennis Quaid

5. “When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It’s like death.”

— Dennis Quaid

6. “My family is the most important thing in the world to me, too, before anything else.”

— Dennis Quaid

7. “Going to the golf course every day for work? That’s a good job.”

— Dennis Quaid

8. “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.”

— Dennis Quaid

9. “I try to be eclectic in my choice of films. If I’ve done anything that’s intentional in my career, it’s to try to do as many different types of characters and as many different types of genres of movies that I can.”

— Dennis Quaid

10. “Certainly I’m a Christian first and foremost. But I do believe in religious tolerance and finding the commonality between all of us. I think that’s how we’re all going to come together.”

— Dennis Quaid

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

— Dennis Quaid

12. “I was a guy back in the Eighties who was one movie away from a huge career, which at that time didn’t happen. In the Nineties, I worked a lot, but it was kind of, ‘Get out there and dig and find things.’ Then I guess ‘The Rookie’ and ‘Far From Heaven’ were referred to as my comeback.”

— Dennis Quaid

13. “Playing Bill Clinton is really, probably, the scariest time of my career.”

— Dennis Quaid

14. “Back then, people were throwing their underwear onstage. I remember taking eight pairs of my own underwear to the cleaners and getting only four back.”

— Dennis Quaid

15. “It’s as predictable as the sun rising in the morning. Every time Barack Obama’s poll numbers rise you can be certain he’s done something else to weaken the country. He’s empowered a base that loathes American excellence.”

— Dennis Quaid

16. “I’d love to do a golf movie. I turned down Don Johnson’s role in ‘Tin Cup.’ I regret that.”

— Dennis Quaid

17. “God is the only way you’re going to make it in life, the glue that holds everything together.”

— Dennis Quaid

18. “I love being a dad, and I’m good at it. Kids teach you about life, like how not to focus on yourself so much.”

— Dennis Quaid

19. “I grew up Baptist and still go to church. I myself have explored other religions, because I want to know what it is that makes other people tick. I find we’re all talking about the same thing, really – it’s all God.”

— Dennis Quaid

20. “I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics.”

— Dennis Quaid

21. “I have a ranch in Montana, but it’s not a real working ranch. I’ve always liked the outdoors. I come from Texas. My grandfather was a farmer; that’s as close as I come.”

— Dennis Quaid

22. “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.”

— Dennis Quaid

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

— Dennis Quaid

24. “I love being a dad. Basically it’s the most gratifying, rewarding relationship in life. But, at the same time, it certainly is the most challenging.”

— Dennis Quaid

25. “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.”

— Dennis Quaid

26. “Horseracing and ranch horses are two different animals. You’re getting race horses out and running and running them. It can be really problematic. A thoroughbred’s very delicate.”

— Dennis Quaid

27. “I look for a good story. Usually the best stories are the ones that are unbelievably true. ‘Soul Surfer’ is one of those stories.”

— Dennis Quaid

28. “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.”

— Dennis Quaid

29. “That’s what is great about what I do, going from one job to the other.”

— Dennis Quaid

30. “I’m an idol of cinema? Oh, wow.”

— Dennis Quaid

31. “I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I’m used to.”

— Dennis Quaid

32. “You go to Main Street, and Wal-Mart is coming to town and kicking out all the mom and pop stores. All the people that were in the mom and pop stores are now working for Wal-Mart.”

— Dennis Quaid

33. “In my early teen years, I wanted to become a vet. That was my plan. I worked as a veterinarian’s assistant for a couple of summers.”

— Dennis Quaid

34. “I was a really avid bowler when I was a teenager. I had about a 210-220 average. I had blisters on my fingers.”

— Dennis Quaid

35. “There are three things being a celebrity is good for: raising money for charity, dinner reservations and tee times.”

— Dennis Quaid

36. “I was very uncomfortable with all the attention when it first started happening to me. I retreated quite a bit from the world, both physically and emotionally. But then you just accept that you can’t control what the rest of the world thinks or does.”

— Dennis Quaid

37. “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.”

— Dennis Quaid

38. “Surfing is like golf: You’re always battling, and it keeps knocking you down. There are a lot of wipeouts. But when you stay with it and catch that wave, you really taste it. It’s magic.”

— Dennis Quaid

39. “I guess I could say I’m an actor, which I am, but that sounds like I’m putting down being a movie star, which, let’s face it, is what I’ve become to many people. For myself, I’m a guy who was very insecure from about age 14 until the day I hit my 30th birthday.”

— Dennis Quaid

40. “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.”

— Dennis Quaid

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

— Dennis Quaid

42. “Golf is meaningless, but it means so much.”

— Dennis Quaid

43. “Jesus himself talked about prayer and meditation. Anything that brings you closer to the Lord, what’s wrong with that?”

— Dennis Quaid

44. “It’s hard for two actors to be together. Take the traveling, for instance. It winds up being a long distance relationship, all the time, because one’s working here and one’s working there, or one’s staying at home and one’s off someplace else.”

— Dennis Quaid

45. “Everybody just wants to be famous first, and then maybe learn how to act.”

— Dennis Quaid

46. “My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story. That’s what directors are, they’re storytellers because they’re directing where your focus is going to be as an audience.”

— Dennis Quaid

47. “I would like my kids to follow their bliss.”

— Dennis Quaid

48. “I like acting and being a musician. It’s like comparing apples and oranges. But I really like my day job. I’ve always played music since I was 12, and I guess I always will.”

— Dennis Quaid

49. “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.”

— Dennis Quaid

50. “I directed a movie back in the ’90s which had calf roping in it, and I got into it quite a bit back then.”

— Dennis Quaid