Gaby Hoffmann Quotes
I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
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Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.
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I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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We should all love animals.
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Whether we're talking about leadership, teamwork, or client service, there is no more powerful attribute than the ability to be genuinely honest about one's weaknesses, mistakes, and needs for help.
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I had begun my professional career when I was 9 years old at the Cleveland Play House, and it was a very specific, real theater sort of like, you know, in England and the Berliner Ensemble - very devoted people. And I thought the theater was the greatest place I had ever been, and that's what I wanted to do.
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I lived in L.A. for four years, and basically, every corner you go to, or in a restaurant, you can't even find people from the same background.
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The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.
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'Amores Perros' and 'Once Were Warriors' had a tremendous visceral quality that really influenced me.
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I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.
