Dennis Quaid Takes Us Back Through His Career Highs, Including His Cowboy Era With Kevin Costner (Exclusive)

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00:00 The first one, the first thing I noticed besides the Queen is Natasha Richardson.

00:06 That chokes me up because she was, she was such a beautiful person, she was.

00:13 And she and Liam had two beautiful boys and it was, she was just,

00:19 well we can't make a parent trap too, but that's for sure because nobody could ever replace her.

00:27 She was a special human being.

00:30 The other thing I noticed is the Queen of England.

00:32 That day I had my first cold sore that I had since I was 12 years old.

00:42 It was right here, it just like really sprung.

00:44 And so I felt like, "Hello mom, I am no wretched servant."

00:49 That's a really great picture.

00:50 That's me and Kev.

00:52 Gosh, we look really young there.

00:57 That was, he's very close to my heart, Doc Holliday.

01:00 You know, playing him and really finding out about him.

01:04 I love that movie, that was a great experience.

01:06 I had got down to 138 pounds.

01:09 I lost 44 pounds from that.

01:12 I'd have a thousand calories a day and then on the Stairmaster I would work off 600 of them.

01:17 Basically POW diet.

01:19 There's me playing golf with a killer.

01:22 That was really something.

01:23 But I spent a weekend in the White House with Bill Clinton.

01:27 Hillary was out of town, it was a slow news weekend.

01:30 Been there for a state dinner with Meg and Jack and he asked me to stay.

01:38 There was nobody in the White House in the weekend.

01:40 I had this pass and I just, I went everywhere by myself.

01:44 Went down to the basement, you know, saw the tunnel.

01:46 Saw, went to the Oval Office all by myself.

01:49 It's really something to walk around here alone.

01:51 And then we got in the back of the presidential limousine and you just take off and you don't stop.

01:57 We got in the back with a couple of Subway sandwiches and he just waved at everybody.

02:02 They blocked off all the other fairways around us.

02:05 And it's the only time the president gets to drive.

02:07 And he was a good golfer.

02:09 I said, "If you weren't president, you'd probably beat me."

02:11 I'll give him a nice star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

02:15 I was just over there the other night for the opening of the long game.

02:20 And we went over and took a look at it and took pictures.

02:24 Oh, this is the Long Riders with me and my dippy mustache.

02:31 It was intentionally dippy.

02:33 It was a story of Jesse James gang and we cast it with all brothers.

02:39 It was the Keech brothers, the Guest brothers, Chris Guest and his brother, and the Carradines.

02:45 And you couldn't bull anybody because your brother was there to bust you.

02:50 So on it, so it was something special.

02:53 I got short hair here because I just come out of Everybody's All-American playing a football player.

02:58 I had a year to prepare for this role.

03:00 So I sat at the piano for 12 hours a day for a year, which is easy if you're on cocaine.

03:06 One of the greatest piano players ever, ever.

03:10 It's so athletic, the way he plays.

03:13 What a guy.

03:13 I got to do a duet with him on the record.

03:16 Any given Sunday, there's me and James Woods.

03:19 I'm wincing because I just missed a putt.

03:22 That was really fun.

03:23 And the hits and everything.

03:26 You know, I got on there and Walter Hill, you know, he does these movies where he's out there.

03:32 I was for sure somebody was going to get seriously hurt and nobody ever did.

03:36 Just remember getting kicked in the balls by her sister.

03:39 That's and deservedly so, the character did.

03:44 She's a great star.

03:47 Yeah, that was a great movie.

03:50 It was a lot of fun.

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