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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.

Dustin Hoffman

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Dustin Hoffman
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: August 8
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Dustin Lee Hoffman
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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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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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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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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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A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
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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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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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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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