The Parent Trap, The Day After Tomorrow, A Dog's Purpose, The Rookie, and The Intruder star, Hollywood icon, Dennis Quaid, is a very interesting and surprisingly complex fellow!
There is a lot more to him than just being an incredible actor. He is a man who wears many hats, to say the least.
Here are a few interesting facts that fans didn't know about him!
AKA, the plot of his film, The Parent Trap, is basically his real life.
“It happened on the very northernmost point of Oahu, at Turtle Bay. It was kind of spontaneous. It was very much a surprise," he told Extra.
“She was actually taking a selfie of us, and I put the ring in front and said, 'Will you marry me?' — and then she fell down."
The babies were accidentally given a massive overdose of the blood-thinning drug, Heparin. Thankfully, they were able to return to a stable condition.
But doctors were concerned about the "long-term effects" this mistake might have caused.
(I don't think he could have come up with a better title for his podcast, tbh).
His first interview was with Billy Ray Cyrus!
“I’m starting out with people that I know,” Dennis told Wtop News. “There’s such a depth to him that people don’t know and such a deep spiritual life. … He’s a great family man. It’s really about second chances in his life, which I think is a very interesting story, and he’s had a number of them and he’s engineered them himself and made his own luck in a way.”
“It really does hold up,” he told Wtop News of the movie.
“My fiancee Laura had never seen it before, so we watched it a couple of months ago and I was really surprised and really heartened because the story really does hold up. It’s a coming of age story. It’s an underdog movie. There were a lot of youth movies of the ’80s and I think it was pretty much the first one.”
"I grew up in Houston listening to all sorts of country music from Elvis and the Beatles, to Gene Autry — who I’m related to — to people like Hank. But I really love the outlaws like Willie, Waylon and people like Merle, and the Bakersfield sound always moves the needle for me," he told CMT.
"These were story songs. That’s why it’s really cool to be part of a new narrative around the outlaws like this Uncle Drank thing — he’s an outlaw, too," he added.
"Christian music is a big part of my life. And so is faith. My song 'On My Way to Heaven' was written for my mother," he told CMT.
"That’s a very big song that I’m going to be doing something with later in the year, and I can’t wait for the world to hear it."
"I’m hoping to do a whole other faith-based podcast with our partners very soon. Stay tuned on that. This will be a whole new side of me that many of my fans may not be aware of."
"That’s complete BS. I can’t tell you how much [expletive] I’ve taken from my friends over that. I would love to bury it right now. Maybe I was the best-known celebrity golfer in Hollywood, but Jack Wagner is the best golfer. I’ve played with him — he’s a scratch, or a plus two or three," he told Golf Magazine.
As a teenager, he performed stand-up comedy at nightclubs in Houston, Texas — specializing in impressions.
His talent for impressions led him to try acting instead. Obviously, it worked out.
Among Harrison Ford, and surprisingly, many other celebs, Dennis Quaid can fly a plane! In preparation for his film, The Right Stuff, he decided to take up flying.
“I felt like I should learn to fly, because that’s what these guys did,” he told Airport Journals.
He admitted, however, that initially, he was afraid to fly.
“I really didn’t understand aerodynamics,” he said. “Also, I had an ex-brother-in-law who took me up in a little plane, cut the engine and put it into a spin.”
“I was doing about two grams a day,” he told People.
“I was lucky. I had one of those white-light experiences where I saw myself being dead and losing everything I had worked for my whole life.”
