Dustin Hoffman Quotes

If you're waiting for the job, you're dead.

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• I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.

  

  Barry White
  • Music
  • Business
  • Career

• I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.

  

  Edmund White
  • Good
  • American
  • Writer

• I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Afraid
  • Anything
  • On-screen

• I have never looked at a child and been so angry that I flipped out.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Never
  • Child
  • Angry

• I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Good
  • Me
  • Present

• Beelzebub is the isolated part of the human being. This part or this real human being has been obscured by religious structures.

  

  Youssef Ziedan
  • Real
  • Religious
  • Human

• There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Life
  • Good
  • Actor

• No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Judge
  • Individual
  • Guilt

• My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.

  

  J. H. Wyman
  • World
  • Great
  • Me

• Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Think
  • See
  • Hear

• I worked with Michael Black and Michael Showalter on their show 'Michael and Michael Have Issues.' We did some stuff on that, but it ended up not getting picked up for a second season. There will be more stuff, but not right now. Michael Showalter and I are literally next-door neighbors. We see quite a lot of each other.

  

  Zak Orth
  • Up
  • Black
  • Door

• From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Time
  • Sleep
  • Dreams

• The BBC is part of the glue which binds the United Kingdom together. At those times of national moment - of joy or sadness, in the UK or around the world, at times when the nation wants to celebrate, mourn or just enjoy itself people turn to the BBC.

  

  Gavyn Davies
  • People
  • World
  • Together

• I have white hair now, but a lot of it, and I'm still very glamorous, and so I won't disappoint, I hope! I'll still be wearing the tight leather trousers and high-heel boots, regardless of what age!

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • High
  • Hope
  • Age

• I love a challenge, and I love challenging people's preconceptions.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • People
  • Love
  • Challenge

• People didn't vote left or right in the election. They voted for putting an end to all the primitive political history.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • People
  • History
  • Political

• I'm an example of why people deserve second chances.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • Why
  • Example

• As a rule, all relationships go through their ups and downs. It's really about how much you want it.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Want
  • You
  • Ups And Downs

• You want to find a place where, because of your skills, you can make an impact.

  

  John McKinley
  • Place
  • Impact
  • Skills

• I have my own language and it's high time I put a little of it out there.

  

  Paul Westerberg The Replacements
  • Time
  • High

• I think the people of New York have done a pretty great job with coming together for Sandy relief.

  

  Tyson Chandler
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• And I thought, my God, there's an off chance that they will say something that's really worth preserving and there is one way to do that and I knew what it was because I come from television.

  

  James Lipton
  • God

• I start listening to something, or I'm seeing somebody a lot or seeing their art. And then I just really want to make a picture of them.

  

  Elizabeth Peyton
  • Art
  • Picture
  • Listening

• If you're waiting for the job, you're dead.

  

  Dustin Hoffman
  • Job
  • Dead