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.
turns
Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.
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.
doctors would-be way
I said to my doctor, 'You gotta testme, there's something wrong with me that I would be behaving this way.'
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'.
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.