395: Dennis Quaid—Getting All the Stuff Right

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

History, Society & Culture

4.9 • 40.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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The veteran actor and gospel singer recounts his early career, what made him give up his dream of becoming a veterinarian, how he realized he had a problem with cocaine and what he did to fix it, how Jerry Lee Lewis taught him to play the piano, and what it was like playing Ronald Reagan for his upcoming movie. And at the end of the episode—he sings a song! See the trailer for REAGAN HERE.

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0:00.0	Mike Rowe here with another episode of The Way I Heard It.
0:06.4	On today's show, you get to listen to me, get to know, one of my favorite actors.
0:14.6	150 movies.
0:16.1	I don't even know how many plays.
0:17.9	I don't know how much TV.
0:19.7	And he sings, Chuck. And he plays the guitar.
0:22.1	Yeah, he does. Yeah, he does. He's played a lot of famous people, Mike.
0:25.2	A couple presidents as well. Yeah. In the, I think it was called the special relationship.
0:31.1	He played Bill Clinton. Coming up at the end of the summer, he will be playing Ronald Reagan.
0:36.9	He is Dennis Quaid.
0:39.7	What an entrance, man. What an entrance. He walks in a, he walks in here about an hour ago,
0:46.3	maybe two hours ago, I guess. He got a mouth full of food. He's eating some sort of steak
0:50.9	hoagie. Yeah, it looked good. It looked delicious, man.
1:01.8	And just, I think he's 70 years old, but he looks like he's, I don't know, 48, 49 or something. Yeah, he looks great.
1:03.2	He's in great shape and sharp as a tack.
1:06.3	Yeah, and fun to talk to.
1:08.0	You know, it's strange, man. I mean, we've been in the business a while, you know,
1:12.2	and to have a, you know, a star of that magnitude,
1:15.5	just come in and sit down and start chewing his food
1:18.0	and then chatting with you.
1:19.5	It's a kick.
1:20.2	Felt like known him for a long time.
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