Richard Dreyfuss Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 29, 1947

Topics

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I only scream and scratch when something's only 'really good' or 'good', I want to be great, or let's go home.

Jeremy Renner

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We are really trying to move from being just a technology provider to being a partner with our customers.

John L. Flannery

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If my role in a film is meaty, and I get a good song along with it, then why not?

Amy Jackson

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If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a moody folk singer, sitting on stools and being very depressing.

Stephen Mangan

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We're so overregulated as a country that we just crushed our productivity.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

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Ultimately, I think what I want from my career is to be able to create work for myself, and there's only so much you can do as an actor in a movie.

Lucas Hedges

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I have a high tolerance for pain - both physical and mental.

Dr. Dre

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If anybody doubts my loyalty to my country, I'll punch him in the nose, and I don't care how old he is.

William Wyler

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Blest is that government where no art thrives.

Thomas Nashe

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When I'm rapping, like, a turn up song, I'm thinking about what the people want to hear; this is what they're going to like. When I'm singing, I'm, like, telling my story. I'm not worried if people like it; I'm just trying to be truthful, you know what I'm saying? I'm just talking about something that happened to me.

Tink

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I have closed that page of my life without rancor. I do not disown any of the work done.

Riccardo Muti

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I've spent the better part of my career in politics and public policy working on and fighting for education reforms.

Mark McKinnon

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