I’m incredibly grateful to everyone who has enjoyed my films. I am very proud of my filmography. I admit I’ve made some terrible movies but for the first thirty years that was just because the movie wasn’t as good as the script, and in the last 20 years it’s just because of money
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Richard Dreyfuss
@RichardDreyfuss
Academy-Award-winning actor, just an American boy at heart.
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I can't believe I'm saying these words...
I am 75.
Thanks everyone for sending me so many kind birthday wishes today!
I love my son @harrydreyfuss more than I could explain with all the words in the world. And I am so incredibly proud of him right now. twitter.com/harrydreyfuss/
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Six months of firearms training, all for nothing.
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James Bond Producers Are Leaning Toward Idris Elba As the Next 007 esquire.com/entertainment/
When they asked me to do Jaws I said no. I said I wanted to watch it but not have to shoot it. Eventually I came to my senses. It only took a few weeks into production to realize that Steven was a genius and he was going to change the world. RIP Rob & Roy
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I am 70 years old today. The best birthday gift I could ask for is the Dodgers winning. (And maybe a role in a Pixar film or two.)
Quint did not kill Jaws.
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You read for a part, you feel good about it, you feel confident, then they cast Ben Affleck.
A sentence I never expected to write:
The President of the United States is wrong when he says good people can be friends with Nazis.
Close Encounters was released 35 years ago. One day we'll make a sequel where I return & have a difficult reunion with the kids I abandoned
I'm heartbroken. Carrie and I were friends for almost 40 years. The world just lost one of its best.
Free speech-even speech you don't like; especially speech you don't like-is one of the things that literally makes America great
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.@RichardDreyfuss: colleges are a battlefield of ideas, and we MUST have dissident, dissenting opinions
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I still can't believe that Donald fucking Trump is going to be president.
I'm actually not Julia Louis-Dreyfus' father. But I really appreciate all the concerned tweets.
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WATCH: Julia Louis-Dreyfus dedicates her #Emmys win to her father who passed away this past Friday. snpy.tv/2cRFqAx
JoJo Rabbit is one of my favorite films of the last few years and I can’t wait to see ’s new Marvel film.
The greatest filmmaker of all time is 70 years old today. Happy birthday to my old friend Steven Spielberg. Love, RD.
This “what film character are you most like?” quiz seems a bit too on the nose openpsychometrics.org/tests/characte
Ben knows that the answer to this question is no, because though I support him, I am an old Jew and old Jews don't ride bikes.
"Jaws" came out 40 years ago. When Steven first came to me I turned it down. "Fun to see, awful to shoot!" Thank God I eventually wised up.
2016 is finally over.
Let's do our best to...oh damnit Trump isn't even president yet.
2017 is going to be worse, isn't it?
"Jaws" was originally a biopic about the man who invented braces but it tested poorly and so we added the shark in reshoots.
Jimmy Caan was one of those actors that always made me try harder. He was also one of the nicest people in Hollywood. RIP an icon
This is sick & cruel & we're better than this. Our grandkids will look back on this the way we look back at Japanese internment: with shame
My new film "The Last laugh" premiers on January 11th! Please watch it and love it and recommend it, otherwise time will continue to move forward and I will continue to age rapidly
Xo
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I am his mother and also so proud of Harry telling this story.
I always dreamed that the score of one of my films would be used to play people off at the Oscars. We did it, Steven! #oscars2013
I started acting at 9 & celebrated my 69th birthday today during the break between a matinee & evening performance. Thanks for the love!
This means something.
Some people keep their prized positions in safes, but safes are the first place the robbers will look.
. is one of the funniest, nicest people I've ever worked with. She also deserves the Nobel for being the first to be right about Trump
One of the most fun times I’ve ever had shooting a film was Another Stakeout. It was a sequel to a very popular movie that maybe took too many years to make. But John Badham, Emilio, , Madeleine Stowe, Dennis, & Miguel, and I had a blast. I think about that set to this day
All surviving Republicans will look back on this campaign as Americans looked back on lynching, with overwhelming shame
I'm a manic depressive. I know what it's like to wake up & not recognize your own actions. The country is going to be feeling that very soon
Trump is a disgusting, dangerous pig. His supporters should abandon him—but don't let them forget that they did this. What's done is done.
It's 2013 and an American jury just acquitted a man who admitted to stalking and killing an unarmed child.
One of my favorite things to do is just pet my Academy Award.
People think it's weird.
People have never petted their own Academy Award.
My Thanksgiving stories about Jaws don't not involve taking dog painkillers.
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Goddam. It must get rough at Thanksgiving, listening to your dad regale everyone about working with Spielberg in the 70s, and knowing your only follow up is telling everyone about how you get ratio'd on Twitter for eating dog pills.
I'm sad. It's sad. My beautiful friend deserved not to be so sad.
At the premier of Jaws I turned to Steven & whispered "what the hell is this music? What happened to the good music?" clickhole.com/article/song-w
There is nothing more fun than working with actors who are better than you. Thank you, Candice, , , & for reminding me how much damn fun this job can be. #BookClub
Of course not. twitter.com/stumping4trump
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Come join me! I’ll be reading from and signing my new book.
January 21, 2023 at 6pm
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This is true but the video is more recent. This is what I look like now. twitter.com/GoldSchool1/st
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Too late.
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White House announces Space Force, but don't try to enlist just yet yhoo.it/2vT8Wx6 by @realchriswilson
Wow I hadn't tweeted in so long I'd forgotten how wonderful it feels to be inundated with mentions from fans. Twitter is like the late 70s!
Happy Fourth of July! America is better than the dysfunctional national nightmare we're currently experiencing youtu.be/qFrBtEUYiPc
Finally, the world will get to see the twist George told us he always wanted to tell during Grafitti!
Oh, now it's just a "good movie"? When you were a kid and wanted me to pay for your college it was "the best movie."
London! I’m doing a 1 night only show September 24 at . It will be fun, wonderful, & special
I'm excited!
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Nuts is a film I’m incredibly proud of! It is an intelligent court room drama with Barbra Streisand. t.co/ThPJdqrmys
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Soon.
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London! I’m doing a 1 night only show September 24 at @lsqtheatre. It will be fun, wonderful, & special
I'm excited!
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A long time ago John Travolta brought me a script called Pulp Fiction. He was unsure & asked my thoughts. I said, "if you pass, I'll do it"
Ding ding
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Mass public ignorance is the predictable result of inadequate elementary and secondary education. An ignorant populace is ripe for manipulation by despots. We reap what we sow.
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This image is a joke. My son sent this image to me and told me to tweet it. I did not actually get my own character in this quiz. I actually got a number of Cary Grant characters.
Horseshit. I was far better looking. twitter.com/bendreyfuss/st
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I grew my mustache out to play Einstein. I also got old...to play Einstein.
Look at my cute grandson!
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My wife, my son, and Einstein (or as we refer to him in our house, grandpa). Happy birthday, @RichardDreyfuss!
The most traumatic and emotional moment of my life was on June 14 1986. My wife Jeramie gave birth to our second amazing child. And, as these pictures show, we slowly realized there was a problem with our son.
Trump is a new thing without comparison in our political history. He is welcoming us to the opening of a new Hotel called The Twilight Zone
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Replying to @Andy_J_Crawford @bendreyfuss and 4 others
Also, to my knowledge @RichardDreyfuss has never asked any of his children to obstruct justice; commit perjury, or treason.
I wrote a book. And it’s coming out soon! simonandschuster.com/books/One-Thou
I didn't tweet about Robin last night because I didn't know what to say beyond the obvious fact that I'm devastated.
I am incredibly proud of all my children. bendreyfuss.substack.com/p/a-sunday-sto
My son came to visit me for Father's Day and has spent a great deal of time talking about a spin class.
My old friend Bobby De Niro did a wonderful job as Bernie Madoff on HBO.
I’ve never been very good at expressing my profound awe and appreciation of the brilliance that goes on in Hollywood ever year. But what a wonderful list of films the academy has nominated this year, after a very rough period of time. Congratulations to everyone involved!
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A tale as old as time.
Columbine was 15 years ago today. How "never again" became "oh well" motherjones.com/politics/2014/ (Disclaimer: This was written by my son.)
My daughter Emily is brilliant. Her new book is wonderful. If you like brilliant and wonderful things, you owe it to yourself to buy it
Signed, an immensely proud father
Demi is one of the nicest people I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with. As is Bruce. An irony about working with both of them only late in my career is that by then they already knew my kids through school with their kids.
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In 4th grade during recess a boy pushed me down and a piece of wood got stuck in my glass eye. The school wouldn’t remove it bc they were afraid of liability. Demi Moore walked in at the exact moment, saw me crying, scoffed at the teachers, and pulled the stick out of my eye. twitter.com/ynwatp/status/…
I'm not a Democrat. I'm, like Norman Lear, a compassionate conservative. And the only compassionate conservative running is Obama
"INSERTS" is a wonderful film I'm very proud of.
It is not "X rated" by today's standards. It shouldn't even have been X rated when it came out.
Bob Hoskins passed away a few years ago and it was a huge loss. His performance in this film is wonderful.
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Glad to see the Republican Party finally give President Obama his due
People don't talk about it much in Hollywood (omertà and everything) but Cary Grant actually died in a #sharknado
Both of them are not only the loveliest people you get to work with, but also the most talented. “Red” with Bruce and “Very Good Girls” with Demi were both dreams come true. It was a privilege to get to see first hand the wonderful people my kids had always told me about.
Look at that MT Dreyfuss and Marsha Mason in Neil Simon's THE GOODBYE GIRL released 35 years ago today.
It was a great experience. Painful and prolonged but in the end undoubtedly worth it. Sort of like childbirth.
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I'm biased cause my son works there but holyhell this investigation into privite prisons is devastating motherjones.com/media/2016/08/
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@RichardDreyfuss can you give me a shout out i'm having a really hard week.
He was the first person born in California with peters anomaly. We spent months in hospitals with him and years raising money for charities Jeramie led for less fortunate kids than Ben.
I am old.
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Happy 30th Anniversary to Stand by Me! @wilw @Corey_Feldman @MrJerryOC @RealKiefer @bradleygregg @RichardDreyfuss
I'm so immensely proud to be part of @ShotsFiredFOX. & made a wonderful & important show
Fargo is a truly wonderful show. Can't wait for the new season.
The entire idea of "for-profit prisons" is luducirous. The states need to follow the DOJ's lead & phaze them out m.motherjones.com/media/2016/08/