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.

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.

To teach our kids how to run our country, before they are called upon to run our country... if we don't, someone else will run our country.

The bad guy always gets the best scene and the best lines in the film, and they usually get the most days off.

Part of me is still waiting to grow up, to be an adult, and the other part knows there is no such thing.

In a way, J.F.K. was the high point of the American dream. In order to go to the moon and back, all we did was say we could - and we did.

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.