Dreyfuss Quotes

Nationality was - and is - far less a divide than age ... because "everything is global, man!" ~ Ben Dreyfuss

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. ~ Richard Dreyfuss

We didn't get along, me and Bill Murray. But I've got to give it to him: I don't like him, but he makes me laugh even now. I'm also jealous that he's a better golfer than I am. ~ Richard Dreyfuss

'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' ends with the spaceship lands and Richard Dreyfuss' character best on, but a bunch of pilots and sailors from the 1940s get off. You kind of wanted to know what happened next. ~ Jonathan Nolan

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. ~ Richard Dreyfuss

I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfilment 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. ~ Richard Dreyfuss

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

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

I took the part in 'Mr. Holland's Opus' because no one had ever asked me to play 'a life' before. I get to age through 30 years. The idea really challenged me. ~ Richard Dreyfuss

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.' ~ Richard Dreyfuss

The cost of a model is more than compensated for by future savings. It not only presents an accurate picture of the product for the executives, but it also gives the tool-makers and production men an opportunity to criticize and to present manufacturing problems. ~ Henry Dreyfuss

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

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. ~ Richard Dreyfuss

He's like the tiger shark in Jaws. The one Dreyfuss cuts open in the fisherman's basement. That's why we named him Hooper. You remember the tiger shark? He had a license plate in his stomach?" "I never saw Jaws. I caught one of the sequels on TV in rehab. The one with Michael Caine." Another silence followed, this one awestruck and wondering. "Jesus. No wonder we didn't last," Lou said. ~ Joe Hill

The story of America is necessarily one of progress because if it's not than it's a stale story where we have not risen above Klansmen. ~ Ben Dreyfuss

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. ~ Richard Dreyfuss

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

British films are all "room with a view and a staircase and a pond." ~ Ben Dreyfuss

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

The products we design are going to be ridden in, sat upon, looked at, talked into, activated, operated, or in some way used by people individually or en masse. If the point of contact between the product and the people becomes a point of friction, then the industrial designer has failed. If, on the other hand, people are made safer, more comfortable, more eager to purchase, more efficient-or just plain happier-the industrial designer has succeeded. ~ Henry Dreyfuss

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'. ~ Richard Dreyfuss

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

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. ~ Richard Dreyfuss

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

Nietzsche said that everyone tells themselves the story of their life. That's true about countries, too. We're constantly telling ourselves the American story. ~ Ben Dreyfuss

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. ~ Richard Dreyfuss

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

We shot 'CBGB' in Savannah, and then I took another project there afterwards called 'Killing Winston Jones.' It's a dark comedy with Richard Dreyfuss, Danny Glover, Jon Heder, Danny Masterson and Aly Michalka. It's a great cast and a beautiful film. ~ Joel David Moore

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. ~ Richard Dreyfuss

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. ~ Richard Dreyfuss

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. ~ Richard Dreyfuss

To look ahead one must learn to look back. ~ Henry Dreyfuss

We'll need you to unlock your desk, sir."
"Sorry," Dreyfuss said. "Not until I've read this form."
"You haven't ... looked at it."
"And I'm a very slow reader. Sometimes I wonder if I'm dyslexic. ~ Jordan Castillo Price

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. ~ Richard Dreyfuss

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. ~ Richard Dreyfuss

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

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

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

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