Dennis Quaid tells Newsweek that when he started in movies in 1974, cocaine was part of a movie’s budget and supplied to everyone on the set. Coke was hidden as petty cash, he said.
When he was filming “The Big Easy” in the 1980s he would “wake up, snort a line” and go to work, existing on an hour of sleep a night. He couldn’t cope with stardom, he discovered, and addiction was part of his life.
Then Quaid’s band, the Eclectics, fell apart because of the craziness and he went into rehab.
By 1990, when he was filming “Wilder Napalm,” he told Newsweek, he was clean but his career was in a nosedive.
However, he told the magazine that if he hadn’t gone through those ups and downs he didn’t know if he’d still be an actor. “It taught me humility. I really learned to appreciate what I have in this life.”
Quaid is currently featured in “Soul Surfer.”
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