Dustin Hoffman Quotes

We're not allowed in the cutting room - and that's extraordinary. So, when a director is asking for certain nuances and colours and we feel that they're phoney, but we do it because the director asks for it, that's the one that they pick in the cutting room. And I contend that when you see a movie with bad acting, don't blame the actor... blame those guys in the cutting room because they like that take.

Dustin Hoffman

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• Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.

  

  Sam Phillips
  • World
  • Great
  • Song

• After 9/11, the amount of applicants the FBI received increased exponentially. Whereas you used to require a college degree, and it was a small group of people who were just out of college, after 9/11, it changed.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • People
  • Small
  • College

• Interior design is a business of trust.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Business
  • Trust
  • Design

• By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.

  

  Samuel Chase
  • Government
  • Christian
  • Religious

• If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Up
  • World
  • Change

• I love to sing random stuff. That's exciting for me.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Stuff
  • Sing
  • Exciting

• When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.

  

  Kaskade
  • Work
  • Music
  • Writing

• Oh, my mom. She's one of my biggest fans.

  

  Patina Miller
  • Mom
  • Fans

• I've been happily dedicated to the same woman for a number of years. I never even look at other women.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Look

• At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Writing
  • Beginning
  • Starting

• To expect for me to be one-way every time you see me is to expect me to be a one-dimensional man, which I've never been. I've always applauded my efforts to be diverse and multi-faceted.

  

  T.I.
  • Time
  • Man
  • Way

• And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Trying
  • Sound
  • Musicians

• You become what you believe, not what you think or what you want.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Want

• Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • Time
  • Sun
  • Beauty

• A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • Air
  • Pessimist
  • Who

• We need to remain a nation that doesn't just welcome but that celebrates legal immigrants who come here seeking to pursue the American Dream.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • American
  • Dream
  • Welcome

• Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Women
  • Art
  • Political

• There are two types of women out there: there's the kind of woman who finds something nice and likes to keep it to herself, and then there's the other type, which is me, who wants to share.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Women
  • Nice
  • Kind

• I got into acting as a young child on account of a sort of arbitrary thing. A friend of my mom's was a casting director, so really, as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Friend
  • Mom
  • Couple

• I think the mark of a good director is that they surround themselves with good people.

  

  Sarah Gadon
  • People
  • Director
  • Mark

• Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Women
  • Grow

• It really started cooking when I moved to Houston. I bought a house and got my own barbeque pit.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • House
  • Cooking
  • My Own

• The way I see it people don't do what they want to do often enough. They just do some alternative which they'd kind of like to do, which isn't the same thing at all, and as a result that thing isn't enough and they end up depressed and annoyed with everyone else around them.

  

  Will Davis
  • People
  • Kind
  • Enough

• We're not allowed in the cutting room - and that's extraordinary. So, when a director is asking for certain nuances and colours and we feel that they're phoney, but we do it because the director asks for it, that's the one that they pick in the cutting room. And I contend that when you see a movie with bad acting, don't blame the actor... blame those guys in the cutting room because they like that take.

  

  Dustin Hoffman
  • Director
  • Colours
  • Nuances