Dustin Hoffman Quotes
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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Indians invest more in Britain than in the rest of European Union combined. It is not because they want to save on interpretation costs, but because they find an environment that is welcoming and familiar.
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You'll probably find most models are incredibly insecure about their bodies.
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.
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A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.
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I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent.
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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
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I wanted to play Dracula because I wanted to say: 'I've crossed oceans of time to find you.' It was worth playing the role just to say that line.
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Almost everyone will find something in our services worth paying for.
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I will just generalise it that anything that I find too disgusting is not worth an answer.
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I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.
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History, at its best, always tells us as much indirectly about ourselves as it does directly about our predecessors, and it is often most revealing when it deals with episodes and phenomena that we find repulsive.
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I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.
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In all my characters, I try to find an iota of myself, and in Castle, I found a lot. He gets away with a lot, so that's fun.
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I find that talking about myself is often the most boring thing in the world. Sixty per cent of interviews I find mechanical.
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I quite like to sing, actually - just belting out numbers with my guitar. I find that it's a form of tranquility.
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I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new.
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As actors, if we are truthful to ourselves and we know what we can do and what we cannot do and just go after it, there are possibilities out there. If you don't try, you won't find out if you get them or not.
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Quit everything until you find something that you just cannot quit.
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'Glee Project' and 'Glee' have the same spirit, but they're both harder in their own ways. With 'Glee Project,' there's more pressure because you're being judged in everything you do. When you film 'Glee,' you go to the studio and have an off day, and it's OK - you're still going to be there; you take as many chances as you need.
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Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, frankly, opportunism.
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We live in a real world. Come back to it.
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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.
