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Richard Dreyfuss (Actor)

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.

— Richard Dreyfuss freedom

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.

— Richard Dreyfuss education

We need to get back to reasoning and thinking things through. The future generation is being brought up in greed and without a true understanding of civics. There is no more emphasis on knowledge and time. As a society we need to process ideas and understand what certain principles are based upon.

— Richard Dreyfuss knowledge

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.

— Richard Dreyfuss art

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.

— Richard Dreyfuss character

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

— Richard Dreyfuss living

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.

— Richard Dreyfuss dream

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

— Richard Dreyfuss day

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.

— Richard Dreyfuss art

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.

— Richard Dreyfuss past

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.

— Richard Dreyfuss people

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

— Richard Dreyfuss life

I'm nothing if not honest.

— Richard Dreyfuss

'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.

— Richard Dreyfuss time

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

— Richard Dreyfuss patriotism

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

— Richard Dreyfuss thought

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.

— Richard Dreyfuss art

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.

— Richard Dreyfuss history

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.

— Richard Dreyfuss

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

— Richard Dreyfuss experience

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

— Richard Dreyfuss power

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

— Richard Dreyfuss man

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

— Richard Dreyfuss politics

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.

— Richard Dreyfuss art

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 knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.'

— Richard Dreyfuss age

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.

— Richard Dreyfuss freedom

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