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. – Richard Dreyfuss
We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal. – Richard Dreyfuss
Lets give some substance to patriotism. It may take a generation. – Richard Dreyfuss
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. – Richard Dreyfuss
The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic. – Harold Bloom