Dennis Quaid jokes 70th birthday celebration was like ‘being at your own funeral’

Dennis Quaid celebrated his 70th birthday on April 9, however he didn’t go for a blowout celebration to mark the milestone.

“It was kind of quiet at home. My wife got together little videos from everybody I know and love [and they said] something nice about me because there was a camera,” he advised Fox News Digital with a smile.

“That was really sweet. It really, really was. It was a little bit like being at your own funeral,” he added with amusing.

Quaid, who’s starring in and produced his new movie “The Long Game” along with his spouse, Laura Savoie, didn’t reveal who wished him properly, however he stated there have been some shock appearances.

Dennis Quaid revealed that his spouse, Laura Savoie, put collectively video messages for his 70th birthday, however he joked that “It was a little bit like being at your own funeral.” (Brenton Ho/Variety through Getty Images)

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“Yeah, my jaw dropped sometime[s], it was really sweet – people I hadn’t seen in years,” he stated.

With 70 years of life and nearly 50 years in Hollywood behind him, Quaid is happier than ever along with his life.

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When requested if there was a selected half he nonetheless wished to play, he stated, “No. I take everything as it comes along. It seems like the characters find me. The only strategy I ever had was to do as many different types of roles as possible. And I think I’ve been pretty good at accomplishing that.”

He continued, “I enjoy it now more than ever, more than when I started out. I still feel those butterflies about it and feel so lucky to be doing it. And I’m not trying to get anywhere now or be anything; just doing it because I love it.”

Quaid stated he nonetheless will get “butterflies” about his profession and enjoys it “now more than ever.” (Corey Nickols/Getty Images for IMDb)

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The “Parent Trap” star joked he stays grounded by means of “many humbling experiences” and would really advise his youthful self to “take it easy.”

“There’s a lot of things that I [would have] done differently, but I wouldn’t think to go back and do it because everybody’s got to make a mistake first time around,” Quaid stated. “And it just happens to everybody. If it wasn’t that, it’d be something else. So, coulda, woulda, should’ve, if only; that’s just not a way to live.” 

Quaid is pulling double obligation on his new movie, “The Long Game,” not solely starring however producing by means of the manufacturing firm that he began with Savoie.

Based on a real story and the ebook “Mustang Miracle” by Humberto G. Garcia, “The Long Game” tells the story of a gaggle of younger Mexican-American youngsters who work as caddies at a golf course and determine to take up the sport themselves, regardless of racial boundaries stopping them from enjoying at most locations, together with the nation membership the place they labored.

“I enjoy it now more than ever, more than when I started out. I still feel those butterflies about it and feel so lucky to be doing it. And I’m not trying to get anywhere now or be anything; just doing it because I love it.”

— Dennis Quaid

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“I already play golf only once a day, so that part [I] didn’t have to really work on,” Quaid joked. “Preparing was more about the story and the script and getting that along and helping out my director, Julio Quintana, who was so talented.”

“They were caddies there, loved to play golf, but they could not play at this country club because of the color of their skin. It was a time of segregation, and so they built their own golf course out in the desert.

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“It was one gap, and so they had like 9 methods to come back to it, and that is the place they discovered to play, on their own; they’d such ardour for it,” he explained.

The boys start a team at their high school but struggle to enter tournaments and play on courses, and that’s where Quaid’s character comes in.

Quaid is shown with the cast and director of “The Long Game” at a screening in Hollywood this month. (JC Olivera/Getty Images)

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He was a pro at the country club and “he grew to become the white face that [let] them in. And lo and behold, they gained this Texas state championship their very first yr at the nation membership the place they could not play.”

“If you dream that up [as] a fictional story, it is unbelievable. I would not consider it, but it surely’s true, and you may’t deny it,” Quaid added.

The Texas-born star feels the story is nonetheless “very related” to today’s world.

“It’s vital, I feel, to the occasions of which it’s to look again and see the place we have been,” Quaid stated.

Quaid said the film is still “very related” to audiences because it reminds people of where the country once was with regard to racism and how “we have come a great distance.” (Getty Images)

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He continued, “You know, I keep in mind separate restrooms, separate locations to sit down within the theater, separate ingesting fountains, every kind of issues. You know, that was simply bizarre. But it is vital to let folks know who have been born after a sure time that that went on, and in addition to simply see how far we have come. We’ve come a great distance. And I feel it is vital to carry on to our historical past.”

“And I feel it is [an] vital factor on this melting pot, so many cultures that we’ve right here, we’re all Americans, but it surely’s vital to carry on to at least one’s roots and all of these completely different cultures, as a result of that is what makes us nice and powerful.”

“The Long Game” is in theaters nationwide now.