'Parent Trap' star Dennis Quaid says THIS helped him overcome Hollywood’s dark side

Dennis Quaid may be a well-known actor famous for roles in blockbuster hits like "The Parent Trap," but few know his story.

Allie Beth Stuckey sat down with Quaid recently to find out.

While he admits that Hollywood is about “seeking fame and fortune,” for him it was more about “the craft of acting.”

Acting, he says, was “something I love to do” and “a gift from God.”

“I like doing uplifting stories that uplift human spirit, and recently I’ve even got into what they call faith movies, but you know, I think they’re just really uplifting stories that I think we need in life,” he adds.

While Quaid has taken on more faith-based projects recently, as a Millennial woman, Stuckey is still intrigued by his "Parent Trap" past.

“Because I am a Millennial woman,” Stuckey starts, “most of my audience are Millennial women, and most of us, still, our favorite film that we’ve seen you in is ‘The Parent Trap.’ Do you get that all the time?”

“Yeah, because you’re my ‘Parent Trap’ girls,” Quaid laughs. “I used to be your babysitter, because your parents have put on that movie on the VCR and then they go do what they wanted to do in the other room and you probably saw it about 40 times.”

Quaid says that the film “reinvented” his career.

“You get older or whatever, things change. You can’t keep playing the same kind of parts. You have to reinvent yourself,” he adds.

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