SHORT TAKES : Dreyfuss’ Fame Is ‘Right Size’

NEW YORK — Two decades of movie-making have left Richard Dreyfuss at a comfortable level of fame.

“I have the right-size celebrity,” the 42-year-old actor said in February’s Fame magazine. “Not as much as some and a lot more than others. And I’m known but not worshiped.

“I can always get a good table at a restaurant, but when I get to the table, they let me eat in peace,” said Dreyfuss, star of the current film “Always.”

In the 1970s, Dreyfuss starred in such blockbusters as “American Graffiti,” “Jaws” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” and won an Academy Award for “The Goodbye Girl.”