Quotes by Richard Dreyfuss

About Richard Dreyfuss:

Richard Stephen Dreyfuss is an American actor best known for starring in a number of film, television, and theater roles since the late 1960s, including the films American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Mr. Holland's Opus, and The Goodbye Girl.
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When you Google me, you'll find a lot of people don't like Richard Dreyfuss. Because I'm cocky and I present a cocky attitude. But no one has ever disagreed with the notion I represent, that we need more civic education. So far there's 100 percent su...

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I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for th...

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Civics is not only how to run the country before it's your turn to run the country; it is, in fact, the study of power, practical political power. And you must start that process at an age level when kids' brains are still open and malleable.

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I took the part in 'Mr. Holland's Opus' because no one had ever asked me to play 'a life' before. I get to age through 30 years. The idea really challenged me.

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I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfilment of personal fantasies. It isn't just art, its about being a person I've always wanted to be, or being in a situation, or being a hero.

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The bad guy always gets the best scene and the best lines in the film, and they usually get the most days off.

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I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.

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It must be remembered that the Bush White House has a separate talent for character assassination that must not be confused with a talent for governance.

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Kerry is an adult - he thinks things through. He learns from the present as well as the past. To George Bush, thinking things through is for sissies.

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The rules are all wrong today. The mandate of the media really does pre-date the founding of the United States.

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There is one solution to all of our problems: Teaching our kids clarity of thought and political representation in democracy. That's it.

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I spoke so much about being a manic-depressive. I want to bring everyone back to my earliest memories of this companion of mine. Some people call this companion I have an ailment, or worse a terrible nightmare from which some people cannot awaken. I ...

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John Kennedy really did extend the reach of the American people and said, like Lincoln said in a way, that our reach is farther than our grasp - and we should aim high.

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In a way, J.F.K. was the high point of the American dream. In order to go to the moon and back, all we did was say we could - and we did.

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We didn't get along, me and Bill Murray. But I've got to give it to him: I don't like him, but he makes me laugh even now. I'm also jealous that he's a better golfer than I am.

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I'm nothing if not honest.

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I didn't understand 3-D in the fifties and I can't say I get it now either. I just don't see what the big deal is.

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In my experience, it's usually up to the actor how a character is portrayed.

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Civility is not not saying negative or harsh things. It is not the absence of critical analysis. It is the manner in which we are sharing this territorial freedom of political discussion. If our discourse is yelled and screamed and interrupted and pa...

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It is an obvious and blatant stupidity beyond my ability to articulate how dumb it is for us not to teach our children how to run the government.

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Author Bio

  • NameRichard Dreyfuss
  • DescriptionAmerican actor
  • BornOctober 29, 1947
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor
  • AwardsAcademy Award For Best Actor