Dustin Hoffman Quotes

I came in on this movie after there had been a director and I came in after Tom Courtenay had talked to Ron Harwood about making a movie. So, you know Tom and Albert Finney had been friends since the beginning of their career as they became stars around the same time - Tom always reminds me that Albert was first with Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and then Tom with The Long Distance Runner.

Dustin Hoffman

• Movie
• Director
• Tom Courtenay
• Ron Harwood

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• I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Person
  • Nation
  • Pressured

• I've found that entrepreneurial success usually comes through great execution, simply by doing a superior job of doing the blocking and tackling.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Great
  • Job
  • Success

• I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir.

  

  Fawn Hall
  • Think
  • Yourself
  • Citizen

• I think escapism is something artists write about pretty frequently - it's something everyone can relate to, the concept of wanting something more, wanting to find solace, wanting to have something better.

  

  Halsey
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Better

• 'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Life
  • Fall
  • Story

• Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Way
  • Start
  • Luck

• A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.

  

  Carl T. Rowan
  • Without
  • Group
  • Fools

• I run about four to five miles, three days a week. I have four young children, so pretty much the only time I can get away is real early in the morning.

  

  Kai Ryssdal
  • Time
  • Children
  • Real

• Shallowness and ignorance have been our lot in the mass consumer societies we inhabit, where we were too distracted to act politically, apart from periodically deputing political elites to take life-and-death decisions on our behalf.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Life
  • Death
  • Political

• HeyHey is my favourite app. It's like Instagram but for sound recordings, with little soundbites from people's days. We spend far too much time looking down at our phones, so it's nice to have your head up while you listen to what other people have uploaded.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Poems - crystallizations of the universal play of analogy, transparent objects which, as they reproduce the mechanism and the rotary motion of analogy, are waterspouts of new analogies.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Play
  • New
  • Motion

• Making love is, simply put, poetry in motion.

  

  Wale
  • Love
  • Poetry
  • Making

• I learned music from a book on piano theory. I was only interested in knowing about chords. From that, and from the 'Harvard Dictionary of Music,' I learned everything I wanted to know.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Music
  • Book
  • Know

• Word gets around when the circus comes to town, dont it?

  

  Cormac McCarthy

• I have had lobbyists, and I have had some very good ones. They could do anything.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Good

• I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics.

  

  Mark Millar

• Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.

  

  Charles Lindbergh
  • Future

• I'm open to anything that pretty much challenges me.

  

  Algee Smith
  • Pretty

• I keep attacking the villains, the know-nothings, the people who want to take our freedoms away.

  

  Al Goldstein
  • People

• I love telling stories with images. But I think there's more to just saying a movie is great visually.

  

  Asif Kapadia
  • Great
  • Movie

• I realise that I do not change the course of history. I am an actor, I do a movie, that's the end of it. You have to realise we are just clowns for hire. After I had success it was great, at first, not to worry about money. It was on my mind when I was growing up.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Up
  • Great
  • Mind

• I've always equated the writing process with editing, sort of like when I get through editing the movie, that's like my last draft of the screenplay.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Writing
  • Movie
  • Lasts

• The cycle of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully on the barren surface of the moon.

  

  Lewis Mumford
  • World
  • Live
  • Moon

• I came in on this movie after there had been a director and I came in after Tom Courtenay had talked to Ron Harwood about making a movie. So, you know Tom and Albert Finney had been friends since the beginning of their career as they became stars around the same time - Tom always reminds me that Albert was first with Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and then Tom with The Long Distance Runner.

  

  Dustin Hoffman
  • Movie
  • Director
  • Tom Courtenay