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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It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.
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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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Growing up, I played football and was always one of the best on the team.
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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
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Even a liberal city will have a prehistoric homophobe. After a show in Washington State, this guy came up to me and said, 'Your shows was a lot funnier before you started in on your agenda.' I told him, 'Please, please keep people like you from coming to my show. I'm glad you had a bad time.'
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Behind every dark cloud there's usually rain...
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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.
