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A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.

Dustin Hoffman

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Dustin Hoffman
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: August 8
Actor
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Theatrical Producer
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Dustin Lee Hoffman
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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.
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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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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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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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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, 45-odd years of doing it, so we all pile up the things we like about directors and the things we don't like about directors. And sometimes they're very similar.
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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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Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student.
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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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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 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 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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We need to band together as a unit every day, especially to conquer the strength of the AIDS virus.
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Canada is like a nice family living over a biker bar . . . They keep telling the downstairs neighbors to keep down the noise, people are trying to sleep.
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So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me.
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Life stinks, but that doesn't mean you don't enjoy it.
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Next to that kid, we all look like onions.
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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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Look at the studio filled with glamorous merchandise. Fabulous and exciting bonus prizes. Thousands of dollars in cash. Over $150,000 just waiting to be won as we present our big bonanza of cash on Wheel Of Fortune.
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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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