Dustin Hoffman Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Depressed, anxious, sad, frightened? Yes. But I've never been bored.”
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“Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me... aren't you?”
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“Lightbulbs die, my sweet. I will depart.”
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“The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk.”
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“I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits.”
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“We need to band together as a unit every day, especially to conquer the strength of the AIDS virus.”
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“I mean, I don't think I'm alone when I look at the homeless person or the bum or the psychotic or the drunk or the drug addict or the criminal and see their baby pictures in my mind's eye. You don't think they were cute like every other baby?”
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“I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation.”
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“I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation.”
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“One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.”
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“This is your life. Now go make it the one you've always wanted.”
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“There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom.”
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“There's too many interesting women I have…not had the experience to know in this life because I have been brainwashed.”
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“A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.”
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“If you can get out there and say I'm going to...I'm willing to fail at what I feel is right, that's it.”
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“The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty . . . no better than a beauty contest.”
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“I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.”
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“I did a movie called Marathon Man and it was one of my best memories.”
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“I stopped working a few years ago because I just lost a spark that I'd had before. I thought I'd just try writing, and maybe start directing, but I did it very quietly.”
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“I wanted to find my limitations so I decided to do Shylock. And if I fail? I've never been afraid of that. I have other fears - doing bad work knowingly is the worst fear.”
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“Look at the studio filled with glamorous merchandise. Fabulous and exciting bonus prizes. Thousands of dollars in cash. Over $150,000 just waiting to be won as we present our big bonanza of cash on Wheel Of Fortune.”
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“I don't believe in hell. I believe in unemployment, but not hell.”
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“There's a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that many men are having allergic reactions to latex condoms. They say they cause severe swelling. So what's the problem?”
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“Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us.”
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“Many actors want to play Hamlet and Macbeth. Ever since I became an actor, from the very beginning I just wanted to play a Shetland pony. I cannot explain why”
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“Stories? We all spend our lives telling them, about this, about that, about people … But some? Some stories are so good we wish they’d never end. They’re so gripping that we’ll go without sleep just to see a little bit more. Some stories bring us laughter and sometimes they bring us tears … but isn’t that what a great story does? Makes you feel? Stories that are so powerful … they really are with us forever.”
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“God knows I've done enough crap in my life to grow a few flowers.”
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“I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil.”
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