Dustin Hoffman Quotes
If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy.
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When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
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His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.
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In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.
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My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.
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I changed my name at 14 because no one outside of my family could pronounce my first name correctly.
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There's like ten minutes when it's like, 'Okay, wait, who is this guy again?' And then, you know, I just put on the calculator watch and the glasses, and just be all, you know, inappropriate. And then it just works out fine.
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To be aware of others' accomplishments and the indebtedness we have to so many people is to appreciate and begin to respect all members of the human family.
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When I'm on family road trips, there is always Ranchera playing.
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If a film is suitable for family viewing, it should remain so, and if a film has some adult content, it should remain so, and these genres should never be mixed and spoil the vision of the story teller.
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I'm close with all my family. It's just a normal, healthy, all-American divorced family.
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The thing that always attracted me to New York was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people had a lot of stories not unlike mine. Everybody comes from somewhere else. Everyone's got a Polish grandmother, some kind of metamorphosis in their family circumstances. That's a very big thing - the experience of not living where you started.
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Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.
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I like when a guy makes me feel like a woman and a little girl at the same time.
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I stopped caring what people thought.
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I was ten years old in 1969, and while we lived in Arizona that year, I spent most of the summer staying with family friends in Portland, Oregon while my parents visited Spain. It was an adventure all around.
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I don't like clothes. I don't especially like cars. I have a very nice house. I get sick on a boat.
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I respect every guy that has walked away. I think every single guy in this league makes his own decision, and that's perfectly fine. The reason I respect that and the reason I think every guy has his own way of dealing with things is because, in my personal opinion, I know what I'm getting into.
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They will always assume that this guy - an upcoming actor, what if he becomes a star tomorrow? He would not work with me then... so I might as well choose to be nice. But women are not treated with the same attitude. Women they treat really badly.
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I could always throw stuff, starting with tantrums.
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Thankfully, I have my mom and a small group of close friends who are there for me 24/7 and whom I can trust and depend on.
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Fortunately, President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy disagreed with the estimate and chose a course of action less ambitious and aggressive than recommended by their advisers.
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To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I'm always, like, just in it. It's like, 'Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I'm so happy.'
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If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy.
