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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All the women in my family were superb cooks.
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When I'm on family road trips, there is always Ranchera playing.
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They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.
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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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My family is my biggest critic. Since they come from a non-filmi background, they give me an audience's point of view. They have been very supportive of me.
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You just keep working and try to have quality at-bats.
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Suppose your father... walked into this room at the ordinary human pace of walking. And suppose just behind him was his father. How long would we have to wait before the ancestor who enters the now-open door is a creature who normally walked on all fours? The answer is a week.
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Many young Japanese were hearing for the first time the words of Native people from the West.
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Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story.
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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.
