Richard Dreyfuss Quotes
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Part of me is still waiting to grow up, to be an adult, and the other part knows there is no such thing.
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In my experience, it's usually up to the actor how a character is portrayed.
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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'm nothing if not honest.
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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.
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I said to my doctor, 'You gotta testme, there's something wrong with me that I would be behaving this way.'
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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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The happiest I ever been was when I was a struggling actor. I've had big houses and small houses. I always had work available for most of my career. When I actually had to find jobs to make money, that's when I was happy.
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People who commit adultery must die. Everyone knows that. Any movie tells you that!
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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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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.
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I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.
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You don't have to act as if you care; you just have to care enough to act.
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Tabouli is the best salad, but still, you don't win friends with salad
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We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal.
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Let's give some substance to patriotism. It may take a generation.
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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 support for that.
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Wake up and live. It's a fast world out there.
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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 know that I have nothing to be ashamed of. I have nothing that should garner a stigma.
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I believe that a nation that allows music to be expendable is in danger of becoming expendable itself.
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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'.
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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 patronized, that's uncivil.
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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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Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.
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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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