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Dustin Hoffman
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: August 8
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Dustin Lee Hoffman
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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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One of the things you can do as an actor, is compensate for the things you can't do in life.
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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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Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me... aren't you?
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Humanity seized to exist when Israel was established.
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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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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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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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There's too many interesting women I have…not had the experience to know in this life because I have been brainwashed.
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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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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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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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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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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, they had this 40-odd year friendship with each other and with Mr Harwood. So, when I came on it Albert, Tom and Maggie were in the cast. But then Albert wasn't up for it, so he had to withdraw.
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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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I don't like the fact that I have to get older so fast, but I like the fact that I'm aging so well.
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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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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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Someone once said to me, 'Some of us choose to live with a lifeboat just a little bit out of our reach.' I'd like to reach a point where I no longer bullshit myself. I think that's the natural human condition - to lie to yourself. Because the truth is painful.
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