{"id":1807776,"date":"2023-01-16T22:49:04","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T03:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1807776"},"modified":"2023-01-16T22:51:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T03:51:19","slug":"richard-dreyfuss-gave-up-acting-because-america-needed-saving-people-dont-understand-what-this-place-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/richard-dreyfuss-gave-up-acting-because-america-needed-saving-people-dont-understand-what-this-place-means\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Dreyfuss Gave Up Acting Because America Needed Saving: \u2018People Don\u2019t Understand What This Place Means\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frichard-dreyfuss-gave-up-acting-because-america-needed-saving-people-dont-understand-what-this-place-means%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1807776&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Oscar-winning actor <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/richard-dreyfuss-sons-allegation-against-kevin-james-barrett\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Richard Dreyfuss<\/a> He said that he had given up his job. \u201cblessed life\u201d Radio personality telling his story because his country needed saving <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/blaze-media-founder-glenn-beck-explains-switch-to-daily-wires-morning-wire-slams-msm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Glenn Beck<\/a> He was furious at the sheer number of Americans who were oblivious to his plight. \u201cdon\u2019t understand what this place means.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dreyfuss joined Beck in an interview to discuss his book \u2014 \u201cOne Thought Scares Me\u2026\u00a0We Teach Our Children What We Wish Them to Know; We Don\u2019t Teach Our Children What We Don\u2019t Wish Them to Know\u201d \u2014 and the state of his country, which he believed was dire.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichardDreyfuss?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RichardDreyfuss<\/a> He tells me that he has given up acting &#8220;ONLY for something I loved as much, which was saving my country\u2026It infuriates me that people don&#8217;t understand what this place means.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Zxshkqa0aJ\">pic.twitter.com\/Zxshkqa0aJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/glennbeck\/status\/1615121851784593410?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 16, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI gave up something I loved, and had loved since I was nine years old,\u201d The \u201cMr. Holland\u2019s Opus\u201d star began. \u201cOnly for something else I loved as much, which was saving my country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I firmly believe that if we don\u2019t revive the study of civics, we will be dead before 2050,\u201d Dreyfuss continued. \u201cWe\u2019ll have the same name \u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLong before,\u201d Beck agreed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2014 and it will be a nightmare,\u201d Dreyfuss ended.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I had led a blessed life,\u201d Dreyfuss said \u2014 and by all accounts, he did. He was just 29 years old when he won the Best Actor Oscar for his role as a struggling actor, in the 1977 film. \u201cThe Goodbye Girl.\u201d He received another Best Actor nod for 1996\u2019s \u201cMr. Holland\u2019s Opus,\u201d but lost to Nicolas Cage \u2014 who earned the nomination for his role in \u201cLeaving Las Vegas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I gave it up for a blessed life,\u201d The actor spoke out about his transition to activism, saying that although his book didn&#8217;t cover everything, it gave him a good idea of where he was at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt infuriates me that people don\u2019t understand what this place means,\u201d Dreyfuss continued, his voice breaking. \u201cWhat an advance on human progress this country is all about, and how quickly we can abandon it without \u2014 without a second thought.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dreyfuss went on to explain that one of the many things that concerned him was the attitude so many people had toward opposing views \u2013 namely that any opposing view was an attack and even more than that, was unAmerican.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey don\u2019t know that opposing views are entwined and threaded through the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and what we show to the world we believe in,\u201d Dreyfuss said. \u201cYou know, there\u2019s a very simple thing, and it\u2019s \u2013 these documents tell the world who we are and why we are. And we say because they are works in progress, they tell us who we want to be when we grow up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH the complete interview<\/strong><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oscar-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss said he gave up his \u201cblessed life\u201d because his country needed saving, telling radio personality Glenn Beck that he was infuriated by the number of Americans who \u201cdon\u2019t understand what this place means.\u201d Dreyfuss joined Beck in an interview to discuss his book \u2014 \u201cOne Thought Scares Me\u2026\u00a0We Teach Our Children &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1807779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[6481,5374,6202,4894,15169,4614,4370,6482,11282,10412,6195],"class_list":["post-1807776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-acting","tag-america","tag-daily","tag-dont","tag-dreyfuss","tag-means","tag-people","tag-richard","tag-saving","tag-understand","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1807776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1807779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1807776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1807776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1807776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}