I could never hold a job for more than three months, which works out well because that’s how long a movie shoots.

I want to work with great people. Great people really make you better.

It people don’t have anything to say about it, it will be really disappointing.

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

I’ve spent about a year of my life here between the four movies I’ve filmed. I can’t imagine how devastated people must feel.

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.

Can we get in here by January 1st (06)? If there’s any way we can do it here, I want to do it here. This is the place that really needs it.

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

I wasn’t interested in doing a baseball story.

I’ve been down to a 1 twice, and every time I get down there I start playing badly. I’m playing like a 13 right now. I have no idea why. It’s all between the ears.

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.

The Day After Tomorrow.

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

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

I’ve been playing music since I was 12 and I like to play in a band. It takes the place of theatre for me, the live performance element.

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.

It’s the most beautiful setting in golf and you get to play with the best players in the world. It puts pressure on your game and it makes you that much better. It’s just a...

I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I’m used to.

My mom wanted to show my dad any idiot could do it.

There’s a moment that comes and I think that it comes for anyone who loves their job and what they do and they’ve been at it for a while where you realize at an early...

I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don’t know how.

Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it’s not all that important to me anymore.

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.

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....

I didn’t want to throw like an actress.

I can’t hit a ball more than 200 yards. I have no butt. You need a butt if you’re going to hit a golf ball.

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It’s like death.

[Quaid, like Hancock, hails from Texas — Houston itself, the city named for his character, as a matter of fact.] You grow up in Texas, … you learn Texas history before American history, and going...

I’ve done so many movies that when I see them I don’t really watch them.