"Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn’t be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should." ― Richard Dreyfuss Topic(s): Happiness More From Richard Dreyfuss "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.’" More In Happiness "You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves."― Franz Schubert "I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."― Victoria Woodhull "I love my family and I had a very wonderful, magical childhood. But New Jersey was actually a very cold place. There was such an intense concentration of wealth, and such a low concentration of any actual human happiness."― Ezra Miller