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..

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 di….

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….

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

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….

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 territ….

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

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'..

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

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 tha….

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

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

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

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. An….

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

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..

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..

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 pref….

Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded..

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..

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