Dennis Quaid

Battled anorexia in the mid-1990s, which started when he shed 40 pounds to play Doc Holliday in Wyatt Earp (1994). Quaid comments that "I'd look in the mirror and still see a 180-lb. guy, even though I was 138 pounds." He eventually sought treatment and recovered.
He is a licensed private pilot with single and multiengine instrument ratings. He also has a type rating for the Cessna Citation 500 series twin engine light jet. He regularly flies the jet to his property in Montana.
He and brother Randy Quaid have both played Doc Holliday: Dennis in Wyatt Earp (1994) and Randy in O Purgatório (1999).
When singing with his band, Dennis Quaid and the Sharks, he always plays with bare feet in order to feel comfortable as if playing in his living room.
He has appeared in four films that have been nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: O Vencedor (1979), Os Eleitos: Onde o Futuro Começa (1983), Traffic - Ninguém Sai Limpo (2000) and A Substância (2024).

What, like I want to look like Dick Clark? No. I think I'll look great with liver spots.
I could never hold a job for more than three months, which works out well because that's how long a movie shoots.
[2004] Being a celebrity couple is not so easy - it's double the publicity, and it's hard to have a private life...I have to tell you that I am happier with my life now then ever: I have a great son and a great career. I'm not only here, but here stronger than I've ever been - I have absolutely no regrets about the ups and downs of my career.
[on his recovery from cocaine addiction] Well, a couple of times I had people come have a talk with me, but I was operating, for the most part, on two hours of sleep a night, and I realized, "I can't do this and last very long." So I cleaned up (in the early '90s) and then the jobs stopped coming. You clean up your life and think you're supposed to be rewarded for it, but things actually got worse. On the other hand, if I hadn't sobered up, I probably wouldn't be alive today.
There are three things being a celebrity is good for: raising money for charity, dinner reservations and tee times.