When you work in front of the people, either in a film or in television, the people who are in the room with you are not watching you work, they're working so you'd have to light a fire to get them to watch what you were doing.

Theater is completely different from film or television. It has a beginning and a middle and an end and it's different every night. And it's far preferable to any other except in the sense of not getting paid, people who want to eat should do film and television.

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.

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.

By telling my own story, I hope to help remove the stigma. It never should be something to hide.

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

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