Dustin Hoffman Quotes
One of the things you can do as an actor, is compensate for the things you can't do in life.
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I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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I'm not a good guitar player.
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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
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A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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I kind of always struggled writing in Malay, because Malay is such a beautiful language. And it gets really hard, you know, if you want to make it into a song. You have to make it sound beautiful, use the right words.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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That's been the most exciting part of the show - incorporating the magic and the acrobats and the singing and dancing to make our 'Pippin.'
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We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism.
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You have to be very strong and headstrong to make your place. You have to know how to say no. Patience is very important.
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I thought I would set the world on fire when I got out of college. I had done quite well in a field that was growing. Unfortunately, we got hit with a recession in 1981.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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I like celluloid, I like film, I like the way that when a movie is projected it sort of breathes a little in the gate. That's the magic of it to me.
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It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.
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I'm concerned and alarmed about the images of girls and women that are broadcast every single minute.
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We can never say it often or loudly enough: Immigrants and refugees revitalize and renew America.
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I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.
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Things aren't right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of trade?
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In their daily lives, people can see they are affected by questions that do not only relate to one location, but affect civilization as a whole.
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I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?
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Every time I've been to Los Angeles, I've hated it. My brother works there, so I usually go each year for a holiday.
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One of the things you can do as an actor, is compensate for the things you can't do in life.
