Best 33 quotes of Richard Dreyfuss on MyQuotes

By telling my own story, I hope to help remove the stigma. It never should be something to hide.

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.

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.

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

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

I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfillment 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 have more fun and more grand and glorious moments of my life than anyone I've never known. I know that some people call that manic-depress, and that other people call that being touched by God. I just call myself lucky.

I'm nothing if not honest.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

John Kennedy really did extend the reach of the American people and said, like Lincoln said in a way, that our reach is farther than our grasp - and we should aim high.

My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

To teach our kids how to run our country, before they are called upon to run our country... if we don't, someone else will run our country.

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

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'.

We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal.

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.

You don't have to act as if you care; you just have to care enough to act.