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
stories helping should
By telling my own story, I hope to help remove the stigma. It never should be something to hide.
growing-up waiting adults
Part of me is still waiting to grow up, to be an adult, and the other part knows there is no such thing.
night people film-and-television
Theater is completely different from film or television. It has a beginning and a middle and an end and it's different every night. And it's far preferable to any other except in the sense of not getting paid, people who want to eat should do film and television.
bigs deals big-deal
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.
firsts saws scared
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.
turns
Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.
media today united-states
The rules are all wrong today. The mandate of the media really does pre-date the founding of the United States.
teaching kids political
There is one solution to all of our problems: Teaching our kids clarity of thought and political representation in democracy. That's it.
honest not-honest ifs
I'm nothing if not honest.
teacher play community
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 the movies.
ignorance thinking process
I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.
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.
confused character white
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.
winning salad stills
Tabouli is the best salad, but still, you don't win friends with salad