Richard Dreyfuss Quotes

By telling my own story, I hope to help remove the stigma. It never should be something to hide.

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.

My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.

Part of me is still waiting to grow up, to be an adult, and the other part knows there is no such thing.

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.

Wake up and live. It's a fast world out there.

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.

You don't have to act as if you care; you just have to care enough to act.

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

I never had a role that I set out for. I always wanted to have a body of work that I'm proud of. Save for two projects, which will never pass my lips, I'm happy with what I've done.

I'm nothing if not honest.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a teacher, a history teacher. After all, teaching is very much like performing. A teacher is an actor, in a way. It takes a great deal to get, and hold, a class.

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.

It's fun to see the light in someone's eyes. It's fun to give your own eccentric experience and have it land. That's fun.

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

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.

Jaws, first time I saw it, I forgot I was in it. True. Totally forgot, and got as scared as everybody else, and it's a great movie.

Let's give some substance to patriotism. It may take a generation.

Tabouli is the best salad, but still, you don't win friends with salad

Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.

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

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

I believe that a nation that allows music to be expendable is in danger of becoming expendable itself.

I said to my doctor, 'You gotta testme, there's something wrong with me that I would be behaving this way.'

To teach our kids how to run our country, before they are called upon to run our country... if we don't, someone else will run our country.

We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal.

Well, I can't (sing or dance). Actually, I sing like a seal and dance like your Uncle Leo at that wedding where he got up and went 'ya, ya, ya'.

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

People who commit adultery must die. Everyone knows that. Any movie tells you that!