Quotes by 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.”

“We thought that we could predict what the world would be like, there would be wars, plagues. But then drugs happened and drugs have destroyed our society. I dont mean were all crumbling amidst the ruins but there is no part of our life that is not impacted: culture, media, finance, everything is distorted by this little thing.”

“Well, I cant (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.”

“If I wasnt an actor, Id 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 thought that, perhaps, when Im in my 50s, Ill be a history teacher. That still might happen.”

“Cindy Sheehan is making a starting point with the questions she is asking and its not unpatriotic to ask them, ... Its actually a higher form of patriotism.”

“There are causes worth fighting for even if you know that you will lose. Unless you are willing to accept torture as part of a normal American political lexicon, unless you are willing to accept that leaving the Geneva Convention is fine and dandy, if you accept the expansion of wiretapping as business as usual, the only way to express this now is to embrace the difficult and perhaps embarrassing process of impeachment.”

“And dont kid yourselves: No one ever gives up power, ever.”

“I dont think anyone has really played this in 400 years. Everyone has to get humble here.”

“Im a foreplay junkie”

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

When you Google me, youll find a lot of people dont like Richard Dreyfuss. Because Im 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 theres 100 percent support for that.

I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I cant 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.

If I wasnt an actor, Id 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.

Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldnt be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.

Lets give some substance to patriotism. It may take a generation.

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, thats uncivil.