Dennis Quaid, 71, gives rare insight into 39-year age gap with wife Laura Savoie, 32

Dennis Quaid’s relationship isn’t so far from heaven.

“My life is paradise,” Quaid, 71, told Fox News Digital when asked what he loves most about his wife, Laura Savoie, 34. “Every day is paradise with her. It really is.”

“It’s the closest relationship I’ve ever had with anybody,” the “Parent Trap” actor went on. “Every day is paradise. What can I tell you? I don’t know why God had waited so long to bring her, for her to come along, but [I’m] really glad he brought her into my life, or I walked into hers.”

The couple, who have a 39-year age gap, tied the knot in a Santa Barbara, California, ceremony in 2020. They first met in 2019 while at a business event and got engaged in Hawaii that year.

Quaid told Extra at the time that the proposal “happened on the very northernmost point of Oahu, at Turtle Bay.”

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“It was kind of spontaneous. It was very much a surprise,” the “Reagan” vet continued. “I had the ring in my pocket… It has been kind of a month-and-a-half plan… I wanted it to be private.”

Quaid added that Savoie was “actually taking a selfie of us, and I put the ring in front and said, ‘Will you marry me?’”

After their wedding, the star couldn’t help but gush over his special day.

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“It was beautiful,” Quaid told People about their nuptials. “Just looking into her eyes, she was the most stunning bride.”

“I just love who she is as a person,” he went on. “Her character, her intelligence, of course, her beauty. And her point of view of the world.”

Savoie, for her part, echoed her husband’s sentiments, stating, “[I have] never met someone who is so in love with life. It’s like nothing can bring him down. Just getting to do life with someone who lives that way is inspiring for me. It changes my perspective and it brings so much joy to every day.”

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And just last year, Quaid made it clear he doesn’t notice the age difference between the pair.

“I haven’t spoken out about the age difference of my wife,” he said to Fox News Digital. “Other people have. But…I really don’t think about it. She’s got so much going on that, you know, I just don’t notice it. She’s just, she’s the light of my life.” 

“I wasn’t looking for it, and she came along, and it’s God put us together.”

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Following Quaid’s 2019 engagement to the Texas McCombs School of Business alum, he admitted to The Guardian that the chatter around their age difference was “really a laugh.”

“I didn’t go out looking for an age gap or someone really younger than me. I met her at a business event and then the relationship developed,” he expressed. “You have no control over who you fall in love with. I don’t fall in love easy. But I can’t let what a few people think control all that. I’ve been married three times and this is the final one, I know it is. I feel like I have a real partner in life.”

Quaid was previously married to actress P.J. Soles from 1978 to 1983. He then tied the knot with Meg Ryan in 1991. The exes welcomed son Jack, 33, before splitting in 2001.

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In 2004, Quaid married real estate broker Kimberly Buffington. They welcomed twins Thomas and Zoe, 17, in 2007.

The pair divorced in 2018.

In July 2023, Quaid opened up about fatherhood, telling People he is a “dorky dad.”

“I love being a dad. I really do. I think I’m a good dad,” he said. “It turned out so far so good. Jack really turned out well. I’m really proud of him, and Thomas and Zoe too.”