87 Quotes by Richard Dreyfuss

Tabouli is the best salad, but still, you don’t win friends with salad.

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.

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.

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.

The happiest I ever been was when I was a struggling actor. I’ve had big houses and small houses. I always had work available for most of my career. When I actually had to find jobs to make money, that’s when I was happy.

I said to my doctor, ‘You gotta testme, there’s something wrong with me that I would be behaving this way.’

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

I never had a role that I set out for. I always wanted to have a body of work that I’m proud of. Save for two projects, which will never pass my lips, I’m happy with what I’ve done.

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.