Dustin Hoffman Quotes
I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.
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I've worked so hard since I was 18 years old, and I'd hate for the memories to be boiled down to being a Melania Trump impersonator.
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I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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Creativity is the key for any child with dyslexia - or for anyone, for that matter. Then you can think outside of the box. Teach them anything is attainable. Let them run with what you see is whatever they need to run with.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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Being that I always perform, I started working out with a trainer to get that endurance and stamina. Now, I guess you could call me a gym rat.
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For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can.
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A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
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One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.
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Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.
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You've gotta believe in yourself, and you just have to work harder at it than you've ever worked at anything before in your life. And if you keep doing that and keep believing in yourself, great things do happen.
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I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
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You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
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I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.
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I don't believe in curfews, because you can't treat men like they were boys without forfeiting a certain level of trust.
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The gospel is not itself about you are this sort of a person and this can happen to you. That's the result of the gospel rather than the gospel itself.
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If a stranger is writing something completely fictitious, or insulting me on a blog or a tabloid, I don't take it personally.
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The whole idea of spellbinding, of being an entertainer, being the center of the stage, making up words - that let me know that writing is nice.
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The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.
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I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.
