Richard Dreyfuss movie quotes

125 quotes from 8 movies

Jaws (1975) as Matt Hooper

View Quote [points to a scar on chest] Mary Ellen Moffat. She broke my heart.

View Quote [singing] Show me the way to go home... I'm tired and I want to go to bed... I had a little drink about an hour ago, and it went right to my head.

View Quote What I am saying is that it may not be the shark. It's just a slight - it's a difference in semantics that I don't want to get beaten up for.

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Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977) as Roy Neary

View Quote I know this sounds crazy, but ever since yesterday on the road, I've been seeing this shape. Shaving cream, pillows...Dammit! I know this. I know what this is! This means something. This is important.

View Quote [After an angry passerby tells him he is in the middle of a road whilst looking for Cornbread Road] Do you know where Cornbread is... TURKEY?!

View Quote I figured it out, that's all. Will you just listen?...Have you ever looked at something and it's crazy and then you looked at it in another way and it's not crazy at all?...Don't be scared. Just don't be scared. I feel really good. Everything's gonna be all right. I haven't felt this good in years.

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American Graffiti (1973) as Curt Henderson

View Quote Why don't we all go to Gallo Dam for an orgy? I could pick up some Oleo Margarine - roll around in it for a while.

View Quote Stand by for justice!

View Quote [to Kip] Bobbie here is madly in love with you and trembles at the sight of your rippling biceps.

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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1991) as The Player

View Quote We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else. Sometimes quoted as: Every exit is an entrance somewhere else.

View Quote For a handful of coin I happen to have a private and uncut performance of "The Rape of the Sabine Women," or rather woman, or rather Alfred, and for eight you can participate.

View Quote We're tragedians, you see? We follow directions – there is no choice involved. The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

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The Goodbye Girl (1977) as Elliot Garfield

View Quote "It never occurred to us that William Shakespeare wrote the Wizard of Oz. However, Elliot Garfield makes a splended Wicked Witch of the North." Tacky. Tacky. Well, if they're gonna kill me. Let 'em kill me with panache. reading a review of his disasterous Richard III performance

View Quote My careereth is over. I am making a horseth asseth of myselfeth. Mark, I'm begging you. I'm BEGGING you. You want this kind of performance? Let me play Lady Anne. during a rehearsal of Richard III in which his director has made him play the title character as a flamboyant homosexual

View Quote I will bring home anyone or anything I chose including a one-eyed Episcopalian Kangaroo if that happens to be kinky inclination. after being told not to bring any female guests into the apartment

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Mr. Holland's Opus (1995) as Glenn Holland

View Quote It's almost funny. I got dragged into this gig kicking and screaming, and now it's the only thing I want to do.

View Quote Playing music is supposed to be fun. It's about heart, it's about feelings, moving people, and something beautiful, and it's not about notes on a page. I can teach you notes on a page, I can't teach you that other stuff.

View Quote You work for 30 years because you think that what you do makes a difference, you think it matters to people, but then you wake up one morning and find out, well no, you've made a little error there, you're expendable. I should be laughing.

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Stand by Me (1986) as The Writer

View Quote [voiceover] I was twelve going on thirteen first time I saw a dead human being. It happened in the summer of 1959. A long time ago. But only if you measure in terms of years. I was living in a small town in Oregon called Castle Rock. There were only 1281 people, but to me it was the whole world.

View Quote [typing, about Chris] Although I haven't seen him in more than ten years I know I'll miss him forever. I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anybody?

View Quote [voiceover] As time went on we saw less and less of Teddy and Vern until eventually they became just two more faces in the halls. That happens sometimes. Friends come in and out of your life like busboys in a restaurant.

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What About Bob? (1991) as Dr. Leo Marvin

View Quote Son of a bitchin', BOB!