Dustin Hoffman Quotes
Acting didn't solve much! If it did, I would have ended up much less crazy than I am today, but I'm not. At least for me, acting is a relief - a relief to be able to admit certain things about myself and disguise in my work, in my characters.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.
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We want to allow Costa Ricans to make a qualitative leap in our development and go to an economy based on innovation and developing a broadband infrastructure in order to overcome the barrier of 15 per cent penetration.
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Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.
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You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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I don't do meetings.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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It's a hard job. It means giving up some things, but on the other hand they keep saying you can have it all. You can't really have it all so easy. You can do a little of this and little of that.
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We actors have it pretty easy and pretty hard. Easy 'cause we have a meal provided to us every 6 hours every day and craft services. The hard part is staying fit under those circumstances.
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I would like to reconcile the church and the circus. I wanted to transform the theatre... to get my message across that there is only one God - the living man - the person sitting next to you. That is my religion. I believe that there is a sense to life.
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If you feel good, you stand up a bit straighter.
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I have never declared myself an Indigenous politician; I am not an Indigenous Chief Minister.
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One of the things you learn in rehab is that you're responsible for your own actions.
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I was suddenly really famous, and I didn't know how to cope. I didn't know myself well enough as a person, number one, and as an actor, number two. I wanted to escape.
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You know, the truth is this: it is a leader's job to challenge the status quo. And when you do, you make enemies.
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Gun violence in the U.S. is an epidemic.
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Russian hacking of the DNC is a problem, not a scandal.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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The solid, middle-class values of hard work, responsibility, family, community, and faith my father talked about tirelessly from Iowa to New York, he lived at home. The hopes he had for his family and for me, he had for all Americans. I think Americans understood this.
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Starting a successful company is one of the hardest things anyone does.
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When you love someone, it doesn't really matter if they love you back or not. Having love in your heart for someone is its own reward. or punishment, depending on the circumstances.
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Even in real life, I'd rather hang out with guys.
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Acting didn't solve much! If it did, I would have ended up much less crazy than I am today, but I'm not. At least for me, acting is a relief - a relief to be able to admit certain things about myself and disguise in my work, in my characters.
