Richard Dreyfuss Net Worth

Richard Dreyfuss Net Worth: Richard Dreyfuss is an American actor who has a net worth of $5 million. Richard Dreyfuss was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1947, and moved to Los Angeles before his tenth birthday. He started acting as a teenager before attending California State University Northridge for two semesters. His early TV roles include “In Mama’s House”, “Peyton Place”, “Gidget” and “Bewitched”, and Dreyfuss was able to land parts in several on-stage productions. He had several small movie roles during the late ’60s and early ’70s before landing his first lead in “The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz” in 1974. A year later, he starred in the Steven Spielberg hit “Jaws”, which launched his career, and later “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” with the same director. Dreyfuss took home his first Oscar for Best Actor in 1978 for the 1977 flick “The Goodbye Girl”. Soon after, he developed a cocaine addiction and was arrested in 1982 after a drug-fueled car accident. After rehab, he appeared in “Down And Out In Beverly Hills”, “Stakeout”, “Stand by Me”, “The Body”, and “Always”. In 1994, he was invited to the Vatican to perform in front of Pope John Paul II. A year later, he received his second Oscar nomination, this time for his performance in “Mr. Holland’s Opus”. His more recent TV and film credits include “Poseidon”, “America Betrayed”, “My Life in Ruins”, “Piranha 3D”, “Weeds” and “Very Good Girls”. Dreyfuss has been married three times and has three children from his first marriage to Jeramie Rain, which ended in 1995. His union to Janelle Lacey ended after six years in 2005, and he has been married to current wife Svetlana Erohkin since 2006. Dreyfuss is an outspoken political activist, the co-author of a historical thriller novel and suffers from bipolar disorder. He lives in California with his wife.

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I love the ideals of my country. But I hate that we've been so denied any real knowledge of the world and don't have the education to think clearly, so we vote against our economic interest and believe in our most shallow first thoughts of fear and hatred.

Richard Dreyfuss

I didn't understand 3-D in the fifties and I can't say I get it now either. I just don't see what the big deal is.

Richard Dreyfuss

I knew I was a manic depressive when I was 13 or 14, and I loved it. I always told people what I had, and I was always cresting on a manic wave. I used it, willingly and happily, and it was an extraordinary experience. When I got hit with the depressive side - Boom! - yes, it was horrible and unendurable, but that's part of the story.

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I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.'

Richard Dreyfuss

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

Richard Dreyfuss