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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 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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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 some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.
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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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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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A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
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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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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 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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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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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 did a movie called Marathon Man and it was one of my best memories.
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