Name: Richard Dreyfuss Breaks Down His Career, from Jaws to Daughter of the Wolf | Vanity Fair
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Future simple

someone said to me, How could you play Cheney When I said There's a little bit of Cheney in all of us and there is and was and will always be.

I'm Richard Dreyfuss and this is my career timeline, and it's all true because I have no secrets.

Past simple

Okay, I'm nine years old and we've just moved from New York and life Mother is in the kitchen and I say to her, I want to be an actor and she said, Don't just talk about it And I got up and went down to the local Jewish Community Center and audition for a part.

And although I didn't get the part I wanted, I did get gassed in that show, Really, Without a break of any kind, I proceeded to work as an actor at the Jewish Community Center for maybe 20 years.

I was doing a TV show and I was working with Richard something or other.

He fucked up the line and I went got into the silence that was created from that folk cut Peter to expiry.

Lee shows writer director, walked over to me.

By the time he got to the end of that sentence, I was about that.

She said that she'd be here if we needed her.

I was raised on a ranch outside of Vegas.

And no, I don't know howto flip a rope in those meetings.

Then on the day that we shot all of the ranch stuff, I went up to the head Wrangler and I said So, um, have you yet?

And so you put the two kids on a buckboard next to me The moment the word action was uttered, it was followed hastily by cut Kat Kat because they knew I didn't know what the hell I was doing.

First of all, every young actor in America wanted the role and the gradual my audition because all I wanted was to get to Mike Nichols.

His office calls and says he had to fly to New York last night in order to see young actor named Dustin Hoffman.

And I could just sense myself reacting to the name Dustin Hoffman.

And I knew it was like immortality went right up the back of my neck.

And then he did the greatest thing in the world.

Mike Nichols, who is known as a great gentleman, proved it because he offered every actor who ever auditioned for that part.

My first film role was in a film called The Young Runaways and directed by a man named Dreyfuss.

I had to be outfitted and in his best suit, the costumer did 1/2 hour on short after, you know everybody are our effort.

Are you trying to tell me that I'm short?

And I couldn't wait to get back to tell my best friends about this crazy costumer?

I went to Rob Reiner, Carl Barack and Albert Brooks and I went I have the funniest story to tell.

At that moment, I realized for the first time that I was short.

But we, uh, we've made friends with I can sincerely tell you that I tried desperately to get out of that one because I had done a film in Canada called The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz.

I said, because this is gonna be a bitch to shoot, and I'm really lazy.

And then I saw duty Kravitz for the first time, and I said to myself, If somehow this film is sold in the United States, I will never work again.

And so I just did what every normal human would do.

I beg for the part on my knees, and then Stephen gave it to me and Steven said we had a deal.

I felt like shit, I I got the role and active as well as I could, and that made me of something.

I wasn't a star, but I wasn't not a star.

I knew that Stephen was known At that time as Thea Uncrowned Prince of Hollywood, I wrote a piece for one of his tributes that said, There is a man who is a film director in Hollywood and I spent a summer with him.

I watched a young director to be turned from a boy into a man.

During the shooting of that, I watched this guy, a crew authority and a crew confidence, and it was amazing.

He told me how to shoot Jaws without one interesting shot.

There is not one shot in the film stands up, but the story will hit you right between the eyes, and you will never, ever forget that experience.

Stephen told me towards the end of the shoot of Jones what his next film's gonna be about.

I walked by Stephen's office every day and bad mouth every actor in Hollywood.

Andi, I said, Uh, Pacino has no sense of humor.

Finally, after weeks that he looked up at me and said, You got the part.

It was only the only film I've ever done or could conceive of.

Doing that was, has filled with potential and greatness as that film, that part will outlive us all.

I got a phone call to read another script called The Goodbye Girl.

It was what happened in real life to Dustin Hoffman when he was not trying to prove how terrible his life Waas really apparently all happened.

Three weeks later, we were in rehearsal, and we rehearsed by reading the script in the morning and reading the script in the afternoon and doing it all over again.

The next day, we came intimately familiar with that script.

Then the next week we were introduced to the complete set of The Goodbye Girl, which was true down to the ashtrays.

True and nothing was as brilliantly conceived as that.

And then we finished this movie and then got praised.

My agent calls and says, You've been nominated for best actor.

I've been nominated Hello And I said, Who else was nominated?

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