"The happiest I ever been was when I was a struggling actor. I've had big houses and small houses. I always had work available for most of my career. When I actually had to find jobs to make money, that's when I was happy."

-- Richard Dreyfuss

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“When I was collecting material for a political gossip column, and someone said something interesting, I would wait for them to add, 'and I don't want to read that in your magazine!' In which case I wouldn't use it. But if they didn't remember to say it, I'd nip off to the loo, write the story up, come back and change the subject.”
“There are no safeguards that can protect the emotional investor from himself.”
“It's not knowing how to write that makes you interesting, it's what you write.”
“I don't know yet what I am capable of doing, but, by God, I have genius -- I know it too well to blush behind it.”
“When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings”
“My grammar school graduating class in 1941 had a little party for 13 or 14 year-old kids. [Trumpeter] King Kolax's band played for the party and Gene Ammons was playing tenor saxophone with the band. And that's when I said, "That's it!" Just like that, tunnelvision ever since.”
“Having a tradition is a great thing to work within, and maybe today [it] is the only way to really land musically dramatic work.”

Source : "Alan Menken Discusses 'Tangled' and the Past, Present, and Future of the Animated Musical". Interview with Christian Blauvelt, www.ew.com. November 24, 2010.
“Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be acquired through dead letters.”

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