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"I'd love to do a golf movie. I turned down Don Johnson's role in 'Tin Cup.' I regret that."
Quote by -Dennis Quaid
"I've always considered myself a character actor. That's the way I was trained, really."
Quote by -Dennis Quaid
"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."
Quote by -Dennis Quaid
"'Legion' was a lot of fun to shoot. It was a real unique apocalypse scenario that takes place in a diner out in the desert. Very much like a drive-in B-movie, but in a good way."
Quote by -Dennis Quaid
"My family is the most important thing in the world to me, too, before anything else."
Quote by -Dennis Quaid
"What is great about art and artists is that we get to ask the questions, even though we may never know the answers."
Quote by -Dennis Quaid
"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."
Quote by -Dennis Quaid
"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."
Quote by -Dennis Quaid
"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."
Quote by -Dennis Quaid
"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."
Quote by -Dennis Quaid
"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."
Quote by -Dennis Quaid
"I love politics, but I wouldn't want to be involved in it. Too little money, too much work! I don't really have the personality for that."
Quote by -Dennis Quaid
"The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes."
Quote by -Desiderius Erasmus
"Imagine if somebody said your nose is too big or your ears stick out. For me, it was my neck was too short. It stuck with me all my life."
Quote by -Diane Lane
"I'm done saying 'I'm sorry I wasn't who you needed or wanted me to be' to everybody in my life."
Quote by -Diane Lane
"Well, I can fake my way around some things, but I don't think I would be good at betting."
Quote by -Diane Lane
"My roles are in some way like children to me. You don't ever really want to scrape one off your shoe."
Quote by -Diane Lane
"If people knew what made hits they'd make more of them, so to have the illusion of control over one's career isn't something I can even pretend to have."
Quote by -Diane Lane
"Because that's what intimacy is: It's a willingness to be vulnerable, a willingness to bite my tongue and a willingness to set an example of what I believe in."
Quote by -Diane Lane
"Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all."
Quote by -Diane Lane
"I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world."
Quote by -Diane Lane
"I loved acting, I started as a child and it is interesting because I didn't compare myself to others that were doing the same thing. I just felt that I needed to stay focused and stay out of trouble."
Quote by -Diane Lane
"I grew up loving horses. I was relatively obsessed, starting with my rocking horse at age 2, all the way through my painting and drawing phase."
Quote by -Diane Lane
"I love my work, but there is no price you can put on what you miss when you are away from your kids."
Quote by -Diane Lane
"When I was growing up in New York City, my "father "was a taxi driver for a time."
Quote by -Diane Lane
"I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath and hands on the letter."
Quote by -Diane Lane
"Every film is its own experience, its own planet, its own family. It seems infinite when you're working on it, and then it's suddenly very finite, and it's done."
Quote by -Diane Lane
"It's nice to have a pause to parent and to be more present at home, teaching them how to drive cars and navigate boys and all this sort of thing."
Quote by -Diane Lane
"You really can't take a cat and turn it into a dog, or try and get lemons off an apple tree, or what have you."
Quote by -Diane Lane
"I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to make a film, for the most part. I think it requires the attentiveness of a mother hen."
Quote by -Diane Lane
"If something comes along that's really good, and I think I would be good for it, I'd be happy to do it. But not too many came along. I mean, they came along for the first, I don't know, 15, 18 films, but I didn't do that many. But then I didn't want to do the kind of junk I was seeing."
Quote by -Gene Wilder
"Mel Brooks is one of the few authentic geniuses working in comedy in America today."
Quote by -Gene Wilder
"I worked two days in Texas and two days in Hollywood on 'Bonnie and Clyde,' and that was it. I had no idea how it was going to turn out. And when I saw it, I was so upset, or fascinated, or something, by the sight of myself on the screen that I could hardly pay attention to the rest of the movie."
Quote by -Gene Wilder
"We all grew up on movies with scenes where the actor is lying, and you know he's lying, but he wants to make sure you know it's a lie, and so he overacts and all but winks at you, and everybody in the world except for the girl he's talking to knows he's lying."
Quote by -Gene Wilder
"What good is a character who's always winking at the audience to let them in on the secret?"
Quote by -Gene Wilder
"When I was in desperate trouble for maybe eight or nine years, I went to a neuropsychiatrist."
Quote by -Gene Wilder
"I feel very Jewish, and I feel very grateful to be Jewish. But I don't believe in God or anything to do with the Jewish religion."
Quote by -Gene Wilder
"The thing I love about making movies is the peace of mind that I know I don't have to be perfect the first time. I can be perfect the second time or the third time."
Quote by -Gene Wilder