Dennis Quaid Quotes

It's certainly not easy having to spend a lot of time apart, and having a five-year-old child who's got to be at school. So we need to learn how to organize our time really well because for months we will be in two different countries.

If you go away on location for three months and your wife stays at home, you've made a whole new load of friends and she's made a whole new load of friends and you get home and you're kind of strangers.

I just refuse to date actors. I've done that, and I don't want to do that anymore. It's just the stress of traveling and being away from each other so much.

One person goes off and works in Houston the other person goes off to London and you're on the phone to each other and somebody is paying you to kiss somebody else. It's very bizarre being an actor.

This is the hardest part of military family life - being away from each other.

Don't ever spend more than three weeks apart. Two and a half weeks, maybe three, was the longest we ever did.

It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.

It's not a struggle, but sometimes when you're gone for a month or two, you start to miss your friends. I love acting so much that it fills that gap of being sad about not being able to see my friends.

I've dated a couple of guys who were awesome, and the celebrity part of my life and the traveling part are hard to get around. You never get to see each other, especially if you're both musicians.

My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.

It wasn't a good idea to work on 'Naked' in the first months of a marriage. I was living apart from my wife in a flat overflowing with books I was reading for the part.

Separation is the worst. There's no good way to deal with it, other than to get on the phone and do Skype and try to visit.

I think, as an actor, you're always traveling. There's a sense of dislocation sometimes from home.

We were in a relationship for eight years, and we maybe saw each other, total, for a year.

I'm constantly moving and constantly travelling, and so it's really hard to maintain a relationship in that kind of environment.

I have a house here in California and come back every month and a half to see my kids. And they come to New York.

People always say to me, 'Well, how can a marriage last when you're away as much as you are?' And I always say, 'Well, absence makes the heart grow fonder.' That time apart from each other has actually strengthened our relationship.

Sometimes, taking a break and going somewhere else and, almost, for both parties, absence makes the heart grow fonder.

The key to a happy marriage is myself being absent for long periods of time. My wife Leesa and I will celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary next year, but if my comedy gigs petered out and I was around the house more, we'd 100% be getting divorced.

Part of the reason why some of the relationships I've had in my past worked for so long is because when you're making movies, a huge gap of time can pass when you don't even see the person.

When you work as actors in this business, you spend a lot of time apart. That's why a lot of marriages fail. It's not because of Hollywood, it's because you don't spend time together.

It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us. The daily work of love was often hard to perform at home.

I live in L.A., I go on tour all the time, I'm in New York half the year - it's very hard to be in a relationship.

The saddest thing was actually getting fed up with one another. It's like growing up in a family. When you get to a certain age, you want to go off and get your own girl and your own car, split up a bit.

It had been so long since she had seen him and she had lived on memories until they were worn thin.