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Dustin Hoffman
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: August 8
Actor
Character Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Theatrical Producer
Voice Actor
LA
California
Dustin Lee Hoffman
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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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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 is something unnatural about marriage. These two people are not going to be the same people in a few years. The trick is to live your own life while sharing the same space.
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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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A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
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Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me... aren't you?
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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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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 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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I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil.
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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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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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Next to that kid, we all look like onions.
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What makes divorce happen is that you can't be in the same space any more, for whatever reason - but the love stays. And that's the killer. That's where the vehemence and anger and rage comes from.
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Humanity seized to exist when Israel was established.
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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 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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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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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 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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