After Dennis Quaid accepted CinemaCon‘s cinema icon award in the course of the closing night time Massive Display screen Achievement Awards, host Kevin Frazier shocked the veteran actor with a birthday cake as the group contained in the Colosseum sang “Comfortable Birthday.”
Quaid turned 70 on Tuesday, and it was a becoming celebration for the star, who was feeling significantly reflective about the place he’s at in his life and profession at this chapter. “I’m on my sixth decade on this great enterprise,” Quaid stated in accepting the glory, which arrives as he has The Lengthy Recreation in theaters this weekend and the discharge of Reagan on the horizon. “To inform you the reality, I actually do really feel like I’ve extra enjoyable. I get pleasure from it now extra once I was younger and hungry — not attempting to get anyplace. I do it as a result of I adore it and that makes me form of the luckiest man on Earth, to inform you the reality.”
He spent a little bit of time taking a stroll down reminiscence lane, revisiting his youth and early recollections of sneaking into film theaters, which impressed a dream of changing into an actor. He credited Steve McQueen, Bonnie & Clyde and stated the primary film he noticed was Love Me Tender on the Paramount Theater in Austin. He was solely 5 years previous on the time “it was such an exhilarating feeling of freedom,” he recalled. “I used to be not going to be an actor. I used to be going to be a veterinarian and I’m actually glad I modified my thoughts, though I might nonetheless return to highschool if I needed,” he quipped.
Quaid shared the stage with a roster of honorees that included Lupita Nyong’o (star of the yr), Amy Poehler (vanguard award), Shawn Levy (director of the yr), Geena Davis (Viola Davis trailblazer award), Joseph Quinn (breakthrough performer of the yr award), Dan Stevens (excellence in appearing award) and Ariana Greenblatt (rising star of the yr). Coca-Cola served because the night time’s presenting sponsor, whereas Leisure Tonight frontman Frazier hosted the festivities.
Quaid additionally spent a piece of time doling out thanks, notably to the theater homeowners within the viewers, as CinemaCon represents the annual gathering of members of the Nationwide Affiliation of Theater House owners. He thanked his reps — UTA’s Darren Boghosian and Brillstein’s George Freeman — and his “lovely spouse” Laura, “who makes every single day heaven for me once I get up.” He additionally provided gratitude “to my lord and savior, Jesus Christ, for blessing me properly past what I deserve.”
In closing, Quaid promised, “I’ll preserve making motion pictures. You guys preserve doing what you do. Thanks very a lot. God bless you.”