Dennis Quaid Quotes

The career isn't guaranteed for as long as you might want to play.

I've been lucky - I've been an actor for eight years and I've never been out of work.

I kind of fell backwards into acting. I was studying to be a high school teacher. I look now and I understand completely, or actually barely, how much work it is to be a teacher. It's an incredible amount of work.

I'm not qualified to do anything else. So there better be another job. I'm kind of stuck now. I'm enjoying my life and I'm enjoying my work, and I'm enjoying the fact that the work I'm doing is garnering some interest and that's great. I just hope that it continues.

After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years.

And I've been lucky in that I haven't had another job besides acting in the last five years.

I never really thought that I was going to get out of coaching ever. In my fifth year, I thought I might get out. You have those thoughts in any job. But I never really, really thought I was going to get out.

I don't love being an actor, but I'm not qualified to be anything else. I was an auto mechanic and drove a tow truck and tried to go to school to be a paramedic.

I've never had to get a job as a waiter or anything. I've always been able to support myself in 'the biz.' Which is great. It's really fantastic to be able to say that, because I know it's hard to do.

Advertising was fairly simple work, and I really just wanted a job where I could sit and write every day and not get fired for it like I had at other jobs, but it was fun.

I'm happy with my career and I'm not going to have the trouble of being typecast.

I thought I wanted to be an electrical engineer, which I turned out to be. But I was always curious about other things too, and what if I got interested in history or the law?

The guys have told me not to quit my day job.

What I really honestly want is just to be working steadily... I would love to just be on a great TV show and have it run for awhile.

I don't think I'm going to change jobs at this point.

I didn't have any great job prospects.

I felt (a) it was a great role and (b) I wanted to stay in town. I wanted to stop going to these four month and five month gigs up in Toronto or Montreal or Vancouver or down in Mexico. I wanted to be around my son, Max. This came along and I was like, 'I really want to play this guy!'

People really do think they have to choose between high stress and high reward jobs, and low stress and low reward jobs.

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

If I were going to stay in coaching, I would have stayed right there because I was totally happy.

I never thought I want to do anything, really, except not go to work properly and turn up at the same place every day and eat sandwiches in the same canteen, if I can possibly help it, as I don't think I'd be very good at it.

I don't want to play fat cops for the rest of my life.

I've had job stability for years at a time. You really develop great relationships with the people you work with.

We're all on a journey. The average American switches professions four times. I'm lucky to be in a business where I can change the character I am playing every couple of months.

In America, people know there are always 10 people better than them who are after their job. In France, they know that too - but no one is going to get their job till they go to their grave.