Dustin Hoffman Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.
-
In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
-
When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it.
-
I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.
-
To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.
-
Brands like Starbucks came along and talked about their brand as itself being a community, the idea that Starbucks is what they like to call a 'third place,' which is not their idea; it's the idea of basic citizenry needing a place that is not work, that is not home, where citizens gather.
-
The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
-
For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.
-
'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to watch myself sometimes. I get very critical. And people will say, 'Mara, you were five.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I still should have known better!' I'm a lifelong perfectionist, what can I say?
-
There was a point I could have just churned out the spot and spin paintings for ever and laughed all the way to the bank.
-
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
-
What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
-
I enjoy music so much; it's such a passion in my life, and I hope that comes across.
-
I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
-
Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.
-
If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
-
Hospice is such a tremendous thing. Patients seem to reach an inner peace.
-
I'm a political conservative.
-
There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributing to advance the borders of knowledge.
-
Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at all of the world we know: for we have new worlds here.
-
We really set out in all our books to say something. Every one is an effort to bring the reader over and show them our theory as to why what we're talking about needs to be talked about.
-
Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
-
It is not a matter of how many kilograms of meat one has to eat, or of how many times a year someone can go to the beach, or how many pretty things from abroad you might be able to buy with present-day wages. It is a matter of making the individual feel more complete, with much more inner wealth and much more responsibility.
-
If there is no direct threat why are we invading?
