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 Copy Share Image
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… — Richard Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
Trump is an intemperate, mean-spirited, lying bully. If a man like that asked you for permission to marry your daughter, what would your answer… — Richard Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
Television is hypnotic, and it hides among the furniture of your living room. It doesn't reveal itself, but it distorts everything. — Richard Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal. — Richard Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
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… — Richard Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
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… — Richard Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
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… — Richard Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should. — Richard Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
I said to my doctor, 'You gotta testme, there's something wrong with me that I would be behaving this way.' — Richard Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
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… — Richard Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
Politics has become beyond acceptable when it comes to humanity. People are just frozen in falsehood. — Richard Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
