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.

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.

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

I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfillment of personal fantasies. It isn't just art, its about being a person I've always wanted to be, or being in a situation, or being a hero.

There is one solution to all of our problems: Teaching our kids clarity of thought and political representation in democracy. That's it.

I believe that a nation that allows music to be expendable is in danger of becoming expendable itself.

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.