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Richard Stephen Dreyfuss (born October 29, 1947) is an American actor best known for starring in a number of film, television, and theater roles since the late 1960s, including the films American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and The Goodbye Girl.Dreyfuss won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1978 for The Goodbye Girl (1977), and was nominated in 1995 for Mr. Holland’s Opus. He has also won a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award, and was nominated in 2002 for Screen Actors Guild Awards in the Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series and Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries categories. IMDB Wikipedia

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1. Short stature
2. Often works with Steven Spielberg.
3. Low-pitched nasal voice
4. Often plays characters who see themselves as intellectuals
5. Often plays wisecracking, fast talking characters

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• Film acting is about the hollowest experience you can have as an actor. When you do a film, it’s out of order and sequence and everyone around you is working — even directors now are behind the little video thing — so you’re alone. You’re working for yourself.
• I wouldn’t recommend to a young actor anymore to become an actor because I think the film industry has changed so terribly. The tools in the director’s tool kit used to be story, dialogue, character… after that came cinematography and editing. Now it’s special effects, editing and we [actors] are way down at the bottom part.
• When I saw Jaws (1975) for the first time, I forgot I was in it. It scared the crap out of me. That night, I heard something I’d never heard before. They [the audience] went crazy, and then they silently watched the scroll and then they clapped again.
• I much prefer the stage. Much. But I also prefer being paid. I like being paid as a screen actor but working on the stage.
• I’d like to reinvent radio the way Orson Welles did. I’d like to do Hamlet or I’d like to do a master-class in Hamlet, or I’d like to do something with history.
• I always knew I was going to be an actor and that was that – no doubts, no uncertainties, no changing my mind. And that was when I was like, nine, ten. And it never changed.
• Acting is the only art form that is based entirely on pretense. The clothes you’re wearing are not yours, the words you’re saying are not yours, you pretend that you don’t see the stagehand and you pretend you don’t see the audience – and the audience pretends you’re not actors, that you’re real life. And that house of pretense creates art and truth. And it is an amazing feeling to make people laugh or make people cry.
• It’s really a mitzvah for the actor to know when you make people laugh, you are giving them a gift. You are, as Shakespeare said, giving surcease from sorrow. And that’s an easy thing to fall in love with.
• [on The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974)] It was the first time I’d ever seen myself in a feature film as a lead, and all I could remember was the bad moments that I didn’t succeed at. I didn’t really see the film and the performance as a whole until about ten years later.
• I always knew that I could be a star for this whole audience that didn’t relate to John Wayne or Al Pacino. An urban, progressive, intellectually-oriented audience, not too macho, people who read, people who listen to Paul Simon and Randy Newman. People like me.
• [2009] Jaws (1975), first time I saw it, I forgot I was in it. True. Totally forgot, and got as scared as everybody else, and it’s a great movie. I learned a shitload about my whole life, and I watched Steven [Steven Spielberg] go from being a boy to being a man. He was under so much pressure you couldn’t believe. And his shark never worked, so they had to re-conceive as they went, and it was because of that mind-fuck that he made a great film.
• [2009, on What About Bob? (1991)] Funny movie. Terribly unpleasant experience. We didn’t get along, me and Bill Murray. But I’ve got to give it to him: I don’t like him, but he makes me laugh, even now. I’m also jealous that he’s a better golfer than I am.
• [2009, on The Day Reagan Was Shot (2001)] I thought I was miscast. He’s a character I could empathize with. He’s totally human. A physically bigger person should have played him, but it was fun, and it was especially fun because it was true, and it was a really well-written script in that way. But playing him… You know, every actor wants to play the villain. The trick is not to wink at the audience and say, “I’m not him”.
• [on James Stewart] You personify for me part of this nation. You symbolize an America that is gentle, ironic, self-deprecating, tough, and emotional.
• [on Steven Spielberg] Steven Spielberg is the only person I’ve come across who fits my criteria of genius. And I don’t throw that word around. Genius is imagination and attention to detail. The ability to achieve to the minutest detail what you perceive in your imagination. I don’t think there’s another person on earth who’s as great a plot structuralist or better storyteller.
• Behind all art is ego and I am an artist and I am unique.
• I enjoyed the journey to the top but then found myself disappointed.
• The motion picture business is run by corporate thieves.
• [on Bette Midler] I loved working with Bette. I rarely get to have a good leading lady and Bette and Marsha Mason are the best. I’d work with them again anytime.
• I don’t think film acting is necessarily a triumph of technique. Film stardom is a friendship that happens between an audience and a performer. Its like you meet someone and you click with that person for whatever reason.
• Actually, when I was a kid I was really more aware of the star and the handprints in Grauman’s Chinese more than I was aware of anything else, including the Oscar. I wanted to have a star. I wanted to be able to see, you know, old gum on my star.
• Happiness has a bum rap. People say it shouldn’t be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.
• I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.
• [In 1976] People who commit adultery must die. Everyone knows that. Any movie tells you that!

Richard Dreyfuss Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family Important Facts

• $5,000,000
• $480 /week
• His novel The Two Georges (1995), a steampunk detective thriller co written with Harry Turtledove, was allegedly optioned for a mini series by the UK’s Granada Television in the late 1990s, but nothing ever came of this.
• Got his role in Close Encounters of the Third Kind after it was turned down by Al Pacino and Gene Hackman.
• He was awarded the 1984 Drama Logue Award for Outstanding Performance for the play, “The Hands of Its Enemy”, at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
• He was awarded the 1996 Drama Logue for Outstanding Performance for “Three Hotels” at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
• Jane Fonda’s role in The China Syndrome (1979) was originally written with Dreyfuss in mind. After he backed out of the project, due to salary concerns, the role was rewritten as female and was eventually played by Jane Fonda.
• He was awarded the 1996 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Distinguished Lead Performance for “Three Hotels” at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
• As of 2014, has appeared in three films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: American Graffiti (1973), Jaws (1975) and The Goodbye Girl (1977).
• His paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Poland and Austria-Hungary, while his maternal grandparents were born in New York, both of them to Russian Jewish families.
• Keynote speaker at the Dedication Day ceremonies at the Gettysburg National Cemetery on November 20, 2009.
• He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on October 10, 1996.
• Became a father for the third time at age 42 when his now first ex-wife Jeramie Rain gave birth to their son Harry Dreyfuss in August 1990.
• Became a father for the second time at age 38 when his now first ex-wife Jeramie Rain gave birth to their son Ben Dreyfuss in June 1986.
• Became a father for the first time at age 36 when his now first ex-wife Jeramie Rain gave birth to their daughter Emily Dreyfuss in November 1983.
• Got his role as Roy Neary in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) which was turned down by Al Pacino and Gene Hackman.
• Co-wrote a 1997 novel, “The Two Georges”, with Hugo Award-winning science fiction writer, Harry Turtledove. The novel is an alternate history, based on the premise that the American Revolution was not successful, and America is still part of the British Empire.
• His Oscar-winning performance in The Goodbye Girl (1977) was based on his good friend, Harlan Ellison.
• While filming Moon Over Parador (1988) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1987, he stayed at the world-famous Copacabana Palace Hotel.
• Because of memory loss problems, as a result of his drug addiction in the 1970s and 1980s, during the brief run of “Complicit” at the Old Vic in 2009, he controversially used an earpiece to enable the prompter to feed him his lines during performances. The play, co-starring Elizabeth McGovern and David Suchet, and directed by Kevin Spacey, was widely ridiculed in the British press as a result. Commenting on his many fluffed lines, the Daily Mail’s theatre reviewer quipped, “We’re going to need a bigger earpiece.”.
• Has one son with Jeramie Rain: Ben Dreyfuss.
• Lives in San Diego, California.
• In The Buddy System (1984), he played a truant officer who was a mentor to Wil Wheaton’s character, in Wheaton’s first film. Two years later, he played an adult version of Wheaton’s character in Stand by Me (1986).
• Attended California State University, Northridge along with Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) co-star, Teri Garr.
• Passed on two sequels from films he made in the early/mid-1970s: American Graffiti (1973) and Jaws (1975)… the sequels being More American Graffiti (1979) and Jaws 2 (1978), both of which came out in the late 1970s. In each sequel, his character is briefly mentioned as being away in a region with a cold climate… his American Graffiti character, “Curt”, is in Canada and his Jaws character, “Hooper”, is on an expedition in Alaska. In both sequels, most of the original cast has returned to reprise their roles. Also, each original film was directed by two groundbreaking filmmakers, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg (both making their mark in the industry); and both sequels were directed by another director.
• Was married to Svetlana Erokhin in Harrisonburg, Virginia while in town for a speaking engagement at James Madison Univeristy.
• Was originally cast in the role of Joe Gideon in All That Jazz (1979), but left the production during the rehearsal stage.
• Was once played by Darrell Hammond in a skit on Saturday Night Live (1975). Hammond played Dreyfuss auditioning to play C-3PO in Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977).
• During his struggling actor years, he was constantly subjected to the ridicule of Hollywood casting directors after auditioning. The actor had written up a little list of their names which he kept as a reminder that he would eventually find success.
• During 2004-2005, he took a short break from acting to lecture at Oxford University.
• In Stakeout (1987), his and Emilio Estevez’s characters were quoting famous movie lines. Estevez said “This was no boating accident!” referring to Dreyfuss’s character in Jaws (1975).
• Is a Civil War re-enactor.
• October 18, 2004: Dropped out of his role as Max Bialystock in “The Producers” in a London production. He cited a continuing problem following back surgery and a recurring shoulder injury. He was replaced by Nathan Lane.
• One of six actors to appear in films directed by both George Lucas and Steven Spielberg (the others are Harrison Ford, Liam Neeson, Christopher Lee, Richard Dreyfuss and Samuel L. Jackson). Richard Dreyfuss is the only one whose films were not part of the “Star Wars” or “Indiana Jones” series.
• In 2004, he announced his retirement from film acting, and that he would concentrate on theater. He implied that he decided upon this course due to a lack of recent work in film and that his greater passion was always theater.
• Had a serious drug problem in the late 1970s and early 1980s. One of the side effects was that his memory was damaged, so much so that he still has no memory of filming the movie, Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981).
• Twice in his career he has left high profile musical productions due to his inabilty to cope with the physical demands of his roles. The first was in 1978 during pre-production of All That Jazz and most recently with the West End production of The Producers.
• Attended the same High School as Angelina Jolie, Michael Klesic, Nicolas Cage, David Schwimmer, Lenny Kravitz, Corbin Bernsen and Gina Gershon.
• Claims to be a descendant of Alfred Dreyfus, who was wrongfully imprisoned at the notorious Devil’s Island penal colony in French Guiana.
• Uncle of Justin Dreyfuss and Natalie Dreyfuss.
• Attributes much of his ability to end drug addiction to a life-altering vision experienced in hospital after a bad car crash. Under the influence of drugs while driving, Dreyfuss knew the crash was his fault. Though he was the only one injured, in his recovery state he was moved by the image of a beautiful little girl in a white dress. The girl served to remind him of the kind of innocent life he could have destroyed, and it compelled him to save his own life, he says, by confronting his drug demons.
• Treated for infection in right lung in a New York City hospital [April-May 2002].
• Auditioned for the role as one of the Von Trapp children in The Sound of Music (1965), but cannot dance.
• Has a great dislike for rock music.
• Born in Brooklyn, New York, he grew up in Beverly Hills, California from an early age.
• Was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War.
• Formerly, at age 30, the youngest man to win Oscar for Best Actor (The Goodbye Girl (1977)). He was beaten by Adrien Brody (29) at the 2003 ceremony.
• Son of Geraldine Dreyfuss.
• Younger brother of Lorin Dreyfuss.
• Suffered a well-publicized drug problem in the early 1980s.
• Ranked #81 in Empire (UK) magazine’s “The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time” list. [October 1997]

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