Richard Stephen Dreyfuss movie quotes

“I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?”
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - The Writer

“- Pete Sandich: Love! Ain't what it used to be.
- Al Yackey: Oh there's only ever been two kinds: There's lash fires, which are all flame, burn themselves out and leave nothing. Then there's the long burning. That is nature's burn. Even when you think it's out, the forest floor is warm to the touch. That's the kind you and Dorinda got.
- Pete...” (continue)(continue reading)
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - Pete Sandich
John Goodman - Al Yackey

“Although I hadn't seen him in more than ten years, I know I'll miss him forever.”

Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - The Writer

“Did I win? Did I win? Son of a bitch! God likes me! He really, really, likes me! What a day! What a fabulous day!”
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - Jay Trotter

“It happens sometimes. Friends come in and out of our lives, like busboys in a restaurant.”
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - The Writer

“- Jay Trotter: May I... buy you a drink?
- Mrs. Davis: I don't see why not. I'm on the pill.”
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - Jay Trotter
Michelle Phillips - Mrs. Davis

“- Dr. Leo Marvin: I want some peace and quiet!
- Bob Wiley: Well, I'll be quiet.
- Sigmund 'Siggy' Marvin: I'll be peace!”
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - Dr. Leo Marvin
Bill Murray - Bob Wiley
Charlie Korsmo - Sigmund 'Siggy' Marvin

“- Bob Wiley: What are we doing?
- Dr. Leo Marvin: Death therapy, Bob. It's a guaranteed cure.”

Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - Dr. Leo Marvin
Bill Murray - Bob Wiley

“I know now, that the love we hold back is the only pain that follows us here.”
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - Pete Sandich

“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.”
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss

“- Centipede: I've sailed all the five seas. From the land of Bora Bora to the icy shores of Tripoli. Commodore Centipede, they used to call me.
- Grasshopper: Seven.
- Centipede: Huh?
- Grasshopper: There are seven seas, and Tripoli is in the Sub-Tropics, Commodore!”
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - Centipede
Simon Callow - Grasshopper

“- Marty: Eight's the one, I'd stake my life on it.
- Jay Trotter: They've got a $2 minimum bet.”

Edward Walsh - Marty
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - Jay Trotter

“Why don't skeletons play music in church? Because they got no organs.”
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - Centipede

- Glenn Holland: These tests are pathetic. "Name an American composer." Miss Swedlin, your answer was?
- Ms. Swedlin: Bach?
- Glenn Holland: Johann Sebastian Bach. Oh, this... this is my favorite one. "How do you know what key a concerto is in?" Mr. Mims, your answer was "Look on the front page", question mark. Now, this question mark. Was that... (continue)(continue reading)
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - Glenn Holland
Kathryn Arnett - Ms. Swedlin

“- Principal Helen Jacobs: Next week, I have a meeting with the school board. And there are people in this community who believe that rock and roll is a message sent from the devil himself. Now when that issue comes up, what can I tell them?
- Glenn Holland: Mrs. Jacobs, you tell them that I am teaching music, and that I will use anything from...” (continue)(continue reading)
Olympia Dukakis - Principal Helen Jacobs
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - Glenn Holland

“- Guildenstern: Wasn't that the end?
- The Player: You call that an ending? - with practically everyone still on his feet? My goodness, no - over your dead body!”
Tim Roth - Guildenstern
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - The Player

“- Bill Reimers: I don't believe this. They ate all the food and left dog turds in the fridge.
- Chris Lecce: Don't worry. I'll go to the supermarket. What do you want?
- Bill Reimers: Truth and justice.
- Chris Lecce: Anything else?
- Bill Reimers: Doughnuts.
- Chris Lecce: Why not? We are cops.”

Emilio Estevez - Bill Reimers
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - Chris Lecce

“- Mrs. Davis: There's a fine line between winning and losing.
- Jay Trotter: Yeah. The finish line.”
Michelle Phillips - Mrs. Davis
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - Jay Trotter

“Bakunin? Bakunin was a terrorist monster. You are not an authority on Bakunin just because you used to date every terrorist in Soviet Russia, that does not make you an authority.”

Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - Moses Wine

“- Dr. Leo Marvin: Are you married?
- Bob Wiley: I'm divorced.
- Dr. Leo Marvin: Would you like to talk about that?
- Bob Wiley: There are two types of people in this world: those who like Neil Diamond, and those who don't. My ex-wife loves him.
- Dr. Leo Marvin: I see. So, what you're saying is that even though you are an almost-paralyzed,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - Dr. Leo Marvin
Bill Murray - Bob Wiley

“- Moses Wine: Why didn't I ever see you again?
- Lila: Oh, at that time, I thought monogamy was a male conspiracy.
- Moses Wine: Ohhhh, what about now?
- Lila: Now, I am sure it is!”
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - Moses Wine
Susan Anspach - Lila

“- Aaron Levinsky: Mrs. Draper, could you tell me your understanding of the legal concept of justifiable force?
- Claudia Draper: That's when someone's beating your brains out the back of your head, you're allowed to stop them any way you can.”
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - Aaron Levinsky
Barbra Streisand - Claudia Draper

“- James: We'll always be together, right?
- Centipede: Kid, you're stuck with us, for life.”
Paul Terry - James
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - Centipede

“There's a design at work in all art... events must play themselves out to an aesthetic, moral and logical conclusion. We aim at the point where everyone who is marked for death... dies.”
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - The Player

“- Dr. Leo Marvin: That patient, the one who called before, he committed suicide.
- Fay Marvin: Oh, Leo, how horrible.
- Dr. Leo Marvin: Oh well, let's not let it spoil our vacation.”
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - Dr. Leo Marvin
Julie Hagerty - Fay Marvin