Dustin Hoffman Quotes
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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As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.
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From when I was young, I wanted to be an action hero. I always dreamed about being an action star. So finally, I made it.
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I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like sci-fi, always have, 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' and all that stuff.
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Since my father was a superstar, without me knowing it, I became a child star, as my father's entire fan base liked me, and I can't thank my father enough for this, as it was so effortless.
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Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
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I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.
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I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.
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Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
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I remember we would get young, aspiring actors to come on '77 Sunset Strip' - I remember George Kennedy was one of those - and they would do a big guest star part, a lead, and they'd be paid maybe $850.
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I've always been a fan of science fiction. My family, we all used to watch 'Star Trek' together, which is kind of a nerdy family activity.
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I'm kind of like a samurai. They say if you want to be a samurai, you can't be afraid of dying, and as soon as you flinch, you get your head cut off. I'm not afraid of losing this business.
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I think probably one of the coolest things was when I went to play basketball at Rucker Park in Harlem. First of all, who would think that Larry the Cable Guy would go to Harlem to play basketball? And I was received like a rock star. It was amazing! There were people everywhere. There were guys walking by yelling, 'Git 'r done!'
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Russell Crowe is very difficult, but it's worth it. He's the real thing. I can tell you this. Russell Crowe was just as difficult before he was an international star as he was afterwards.
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I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.
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Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.
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But he knew people and he was head writer for Have Gun Will Travel, and if you took those early Star Treks that we did and put us in a western wardrobe and put us on wagon train going west, we can say the same lines.
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It's never been important to be a huge star or to have some breakout role. If you're the lead, you get a lot more screen time and you get a lot more chances to develop that character more thoroughly than you would if you do it in a little supporting part.
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I always felt like I was born in the wrong time period. I felt like I should've been born in the mid-to-late '40s.
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My pet peeve is when people come over to my house, and there are coasters, but they don't use a coaster.
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Every actor thinks he can do comedy, and it's not true.
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When I switched to screenplays - 'cause I had done musicals and plays - the first assignment in film school was, you have to write a silent film. And it's tremendously helpful to learn how to do that because dialogue can be a crutch. If you can master a silent film, you're golden.
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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.
