I said to my doctor, 'You gotta testme, there's something wrong with me that I would be behaving this way.'
I'm nothing if not honest.
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.
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.
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.
Tabouli is the best salad, but still, you don't win friends with salad
Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.
The rules are all wrong today. The mandate of the media really does pre-date the founding of the United States.
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.
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'.
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.
Let's give some substance to patriotism. It may take a generation.
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.
The bad guy always gets the best scene and the best lines in the film, and they usually get the most days off.
People who commit adultery must die. Everyone knows that. Any movie tells you that!
