87 Quotes by Richard Dreyfuss

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

I’m nothing if not honest.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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