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Dustin Hoffman Inspirational Quotes (45)

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One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.
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We need to band together as a unit every day, especially to conquer the strength of the AIDS virus.
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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.
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I feel cheated never being able to know what it's like to get pregnant, carry a child and breast-feed.
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You spend so much of your life basing yourself on what you think other people think of you. Then you realise that maybe one of the purposes of life is not to care.
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Now, I'm simply working with people I want to work with. I just want to have good working experiences and let the dice fall where they may.
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Life stinks, but that doesn't mean you don't enjoy it.
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If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy.
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I love acting, and I`m not going to determine what I do based on what I fear other people might think. I do what I want to do.
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There's nothing that I love more than predawn. I'm with the dogs, I make coffee, and there's no one up.
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I knew I finally made it as a performer when I began hearing rumors that I was gay.
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The better you are as a parent, the richer the nest you've built, the more difficult it is for your kids to leave. So they have to invent things to dislike about you. And they're brilliant at it.
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I like to mimic my grandkids. I'm trying to understand the intensity of fixation on a leaf. Kids don't need anything else in their life.
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I did a movie called Marathon Man and it was one of my best memories.
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I think 'retirement' goes hand in hand with people who make a living by having a 'job.' I don't think we-the .00001 percent of the population who are so fortunate to love passionately what we do-consider it a 'job.
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If you can get out there and say I'm going to...I'm willing to fail at what I feel is right, that's it.
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But I would reinvent myself if I could. As a sexy leading man! We all would like that, but I don't know how to.
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My wife always says that I will be stuck with this forever: I am the difficult one. With Jack Nicholson they always said it was drugs. Warren Beatty is supposed to have screwed everything that jumped off the curve. I'll tell you, in reality a few of us had as many girls as Warren.
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I hope to God I don't win an Oscar tomorrow night. It would really depress me if I did. I really don't deserve it. It wasn't that important a part anyhow.
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I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation.
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The truth is, I've made about 30 movies in 30 years, and I've been criticized for 30 years for not making more movies.
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I wanted to find my limitations so I decided to do Shylock. And if I fail? I've never been afraid of that. I have other fears - doing bad work knowingly is the worst fear.
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Well first of all, it's hard to shoot a movie and break for a long time and then come back and do, in a sense, one of the biggest scenes that each character had.
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There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom.
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