Quotes

“When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.” Dennis Quaid

“I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.” Dennis Quaid

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

“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

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

“I've done so many movies that when I see them I don't really watch them.” Dennis Quaid

“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

“That's what is great about what I do, going from one job to the other.” Dennis Quaid

“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

“You don't have to be alone with your thoughts anymore. You don't have to process anything. You can call up someone to do something to instantly make you sort of feel better.” Dennis Quaid

“What, like I want to look like Dick Clark? No. I think I look great with liver spots.” Dennis Quaid

“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

“I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?” Robert Redford

“Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.” Robert Redford

“I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book.” Robert Redford

“It's hard to pay attention these days because of multiple affects of the information technology nowadays. You tend to develop a faster, speedier mind, but I don't think it's necessarily broader or smarter.” Robert Redford

“I'm not a facelift person. I am what I am.” Robert Redford

“Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on.” Robert Redford

“Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions.” Robert Redford

“Generally speaking, I went through that. I came to a place where I realised what true value was. It wasn't money. Money is a means to achieving an end, but it's not the end.” Robert Redford

“Golf has become so manicured, so perfect. The greens, the fairways. I don't like golf carts. I like walking. Some clubs won't let you in unless you have a caddy and a cart.” Robert Redford

“He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes on a journey of discovery and part of that is falling into darkness - the temptations of life.” Robert Redford

“I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor.” Robert Redford

“Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.” Robert Redford

“You can't completely control the sport - Tiger Woods comes close. The test is against yourself and nature's own way. I find golf a particularly good metaphor for this story.” Robert Redford

“As an actor and as a person you come together with being in familiar territory although that has not been my whole life. That's been a part of it. I think a lot of people associate me with the west because of Sundance.” Robert Redford

“I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way.” Robert Redford

“I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that.” Robert Redford

“I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life.” Robert Redford

“I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet.” Robert Redford