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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Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue (in the American, not the British, sense) as deep ultramarine, and its manners are studiously polite.
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I just want it to be better, I just want to be better, but this is very encouraging.
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Life is all about sharing. If we are good at something, pass it on. That is the pleasure I get from teaching - whether it is television or books. We should all share.
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Life has a way of disregarding even your best intentions.
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I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, attack sponsors. I'm sort of done with that.
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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.
