Randy Quaid Quotes

• I love Canada.

  Randy Quaid

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Canada

• I love playing characters that are bigger than life and maybe have a darker side that they present to the world. Those are good characters.

  Randy Quaid

  Topics in Life, Love

  Tags in Playing, Character, Afraid

• I am being embezzled by a monstrous ring of accountants, estate planners and lawyers who are mercilessly slandering me and trying to kill my career and, I believe, murder me in order to gain control of my royalties.

  Randy Quaid

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Accountant, Career, Believe

• I don’t trust Santa Barbara as far as I can spit. I am afraid that if I went back there, it’s possible that I could be run through their system, their judicial system, and wind up in some county jail where I could be killed and I’m not gonna take that chance.

  Randy Quaid

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in System, Chance

• Acting’s more of a business for me now.

  Randy Quaid

  Topics in Business, Uncategorized

  Tags in Acting

• I would never walk off any show.

  Randy Quaid

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Walk, Show

• I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

  Randy Quaid

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Creative, Space

• I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn’t want to be tied down to a family.

  Randy Quaid

  Topics in Family, Uncategorized

  Tags in Delay, Adolescence

• I’m not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I’m an actor.

  Randy Quaid

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Crazy, Character, Actor

• I love my brother. I miss my brother.

  Randy Quaid

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Brother

• It’s possible for people to gain control of every facet of your life.

  Randy Quaid

  Topics in Life, Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Gain

• Just about every actor wants to be a Disney cartoon voice at some point.

  Randy Quaid

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Actor, Disneyland

• I’ve been racketeered on.

  Randy Quaid

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Racketeered

• I would not do anything to besmirch my reputation any further than it has already been.

  Randy Quaid

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reputation

• Now with the Internet, a celebrity is fair game, and it’s all designed to sell advertising space.

  Randy Quaid

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Celebrity, Internet, Advertising

• My finances have been decimated by a group of people, such as my ex-attorney, my ex-business manager, and an estate planner, specifically. And they have conspired together to – to co-op my corporations, put in trustees without my knowledge.

  Randy Quaid

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Conspires, Group

• What I wish more than anything is that I could start getting press about my work as an actor. That is what I do. I’m not a criminal.

  Randy Quaid

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Actor, Wish

• When I was a kid and the carnival would come to the shopping centre, I’d go down and talk to all the people running the rides. I like that whole lifestyle, moving from town to town in a nomadic existence.

  Randy Quaid

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Style, Kid

• If you don’t stick up for what’s yours, and defend what’s yours… what are you?

  Randy Quaid

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Defend

Randy Quaid (19)

Birth:	1st October, 1950
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

About

Randall Rudy "Randy" Quaid is an American actor nominated for a Golden Globe, BAFTA and an Academy Award for his role in The Last Detail. Quaid also won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Emmy for his portrayal of U.S. President Lyndon Johnson in LBJ: The Early Years, but he's perhaps best known for his roles in the National Lampoon's Vacation movies as well as Brokeback Mountain and Independence Day.

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