Ben Dreyfuss Quotes

United States, Actor
June 14, 1986

Benjamin Dreyfuss (born June 14, 1986) is an American journalist and actor. He is most-known for his work at Mother Jones, his performance as young Bernie Madoff in ABC's 2016 miniseries, and his charitable works on behalf of children's blindness.

Also known as Journalist

Nietzsche said that everyone tells themselves the story of their life. That's true about countries, too. We're constantly telling ourselves the American story.

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- Life
- Countries
- Neitzsche
We're a leader sure, but still a member of the global community. And that's true and important and when America acts like its worst self on the global stage is when we forget that.

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- America
- Forget
- Leader

American films are the best films. This is a fact. Cinema is - along with Jazz - the great American art form. And cinema in a very real sense created the American identity that has been exported around the world.

Ben Dreyfuss
- American
- Identity
- Films
Nationality was - and is - far less a divide than age... because "everything is global, man!"

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The story of America is necessarily one of progress because if it's not than it's a stale story where we have not risen above Klansmen.

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British films are all "room with a view and a staircase and a pond."

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- Films
- Room
- Pond
I love the bullshit morning shows. They're so stupid but I love them.

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- Stupid
- Shows
- I Love
Other people had strived for freedom and promise and ratatatata but the Constitution of USA was the first time we codified it aspirationally and wrote it down and put it up on a wall and said, "this is us." If your father was a cobbler, and his father was a cobbler, and his father was a cobbler, you don't have to be a cobbler.

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Blue jeans and Hollywood and rock & roll won the cold war.

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- War
- Hollywood
- Jeans