Dennis Quaid

“Clinton knew how to get things done. He was battling the Republicans, and then he basically took a lot of their agenda and made it his own. That's what Obama's not doing.”

“I love to work. I actually enjoy it now more than I did when I was in my 20s. I don't know why, but I'm just grateful.”

“For many years, I was obsessed about what I was eating, how many calories it had, and how much exercise I'd have to do.”

“I've always considered myself a character actor. That's the way I was trained, really.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“I've never really sought out publicity.”

“I love doing independent films, but it's very hard to make a living that way.”

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

“Your partner has to live with the best and the worst part of you, and they're affected by it.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“I don't know if I'd want to be a Secret Service agent. In the movies, it's exciting and romantic and all that. Really, most of their job is standing in a hallway for 12 hours making sure somebody doesn't come through a doorway off of a stairwell.”

“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.”

“My real-life athletic career was not very much. I played Little League baseball.”