Richard Dreyfuss

Richard Dreyfuss
Richard Stephen Dreyfussis an American actor best known for starring in American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, The Goodbye Girl, and Mr. Holland's Opus...
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth29 October 1947
CityBrooklyn, NY
anyone humble played
I don't think anyone has really played this in 400 years. Everyone has to get humble here.
adult george kerry learns present thinking thinks
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.
asking cindy form higher point questions starting
Cindy Sheehan is making a starting point with the questions she is asking and it's not unpatriotic to ask them, ... It's actually a higher form of patriotism.
light fire people
When you work in front of the people, either in a film or in television, the people who are in the room with you are not watching you work, they're working so you'd have to light a fire to get them to watch what you were doing.
character actors
In my experience, it's usually up to the actor how a character is portrayed.
depressing fun people
I have more fun and more grand and glorious moments of my life than anyone I've never known. I know that some people call that manic-depress, and that other people call that being touched by God. I just call myself lucky.
memories people want
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 know that I have nothing to be ashamed of. I have nothing that should garner a stigma.
teacher teaching class
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.
dance uncles like-you
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'.
country running kids
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.
believe becoming danger
I believe that a nation that allows music to be expendable is in danger of becoming expendable itself.
art hero acting
I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfillment 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.
dream moon order
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.
honest not-honest ifs
I'm nothing if not honest.