Dustin Hoffman Quotes

If you can get out there and say I'm going to...I'm willing to fail at what I feel is right, that's it.

Dustin Hoffman

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• My favorite thing about playing a vampire is the stunts. It's just a new, fun thing to do. Especially as a girl, being able to be all dolled up in heels and little outfits and be able to kick boys' butts, I think it's a really fun, make-believe world to play.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Up
  • World
  • Believe

• Sometimes what I think what the news is missing is the human element, the connection - the moment that you look into a little girl's eyes or a father who has just left his family and risked everything just to try and survive.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Family
  • Father
  • Girl

• I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Up
  • Never
  • Anything

• When I grow older and less popular, there will come a time when I have to shoot films on low budgets.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Time
  • Popular
  • Will

• I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.

  

  Washed Out
  • Music
  • Positive
  • Depression

• I can't predict the future. All I know is that if we continue down the path we're on, the Affordable Care Act will implode on itself. People will be without insurance.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
  • Future
  • Path

• My first novel, 'In the Drink,' begun when I was 29 and floundering and published when I was 36 and married, was about a 29-year-old woman whose life was even more screwed up than my own had been.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Life
  • Up
  • Woman

• Well, as I understand it, the main supporters are beer companies and the pharmaceutical companies. I'd like them to show me the dead bodies from marijuana. But they can't because there aren't any.

  

  Jack Herer
  • Me
  • Dead
  • Companies

• I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Wear
  • Did
  • Van

• People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Think
  • Understand

• I'm not looking to go out there and make a rhythmic Timbaland track.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Looking
  • Make
  • Go

• I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Career
  • Man
  • Amazing

• Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Cancer
  • Jealousy
  • Mental

• There's a lot of buying power from the Middle East. Girls from Dubai want to be able to wear Asos, and you have people travelling all the way to the States just to go shopping.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Power
  • Shopping

• How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Education
  • Support
  • Language

• I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me, you know.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • People
  • Know
  • Proud

• You hit 41 and you don't burn calories like you used to.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • You
  • Like
  • Burn

• Sometimes I still go round the house making weird noises and stuff, so in that aspect, I haven't grown up!

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Up
  • House
  • Sometimes

• People who paint, including myself, get to a point where a bit of angst comes in. If you're doing it for a living, it's worth it to suffer those slings and arrows.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Paint

• I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Freedom
  • Me
  • Right

• I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Always
  • Acting
  • Going

• I'll dance to anything: Bob Marley or rap.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Dance
  • Rap
  • Anything

• When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • God
  • Mother
  • Thought

• If you can get out there and say I'm going to...I'm willing to fail at what I feel is right, that's it.

  

  Dustin Hoffman
  • Feel
  • Right
  • Fail