Richard Dreyfuss Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.”

“I'm nothing if not honest.”

“'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.”

“Let's give some substance to patriotism. It may take a generation.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“In my experience, it's usually up to the actor how a character is portrayed.”