A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
And that's another reason to make this movie: We can put plays on film now, at a relatively small cost, and they will reach an audience they would never have reached otherwise.
Blame is for God and small children.
For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that's reprehensible.
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.
I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits.
I did a movie called Marathon Man and it was one of my best memories.
I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.
I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation.
I feel cheated never being able to know what it's like to get pregnant, carry a child and breast feed.
I mean, I don't think I'm alone when I look at the homeless person or the bum or the psychotic or the drunk or the drug addict or the criminal and see their baby pictures in my mind's eye. You don't think they were cute like every other baby?
I stopped working a few years ago because I just lost a spark that I'd had before. I thought I'd just try writing, and maybe start directing, but I did it very quietly.
I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation.
If there is no direct threat why are we invading?
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.
In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.
Life stinks, but that doesn't mean you don't enjoy it.
Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us.
Next to that kid, we all look like onions.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk.
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.
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.
Well this is aptly called a junket, for both of us. I have never been to a house of prostitution, but I understand that you get in more than seven minutes.
The film he got paid the most for was Rain Man $5,800,000 and profits.
Dustin was entered into the Guinness Book of World Records for "Greatest Age Span Portrayed By A Movie Actor" for Little Big Man. He portrayed a character from age 17 to age 121.
Dustin has been great friends of Gene Hackman since 1956.
When first starting out Dustin had some hard times and ended up staying with Gene Hackman and his wife in their apartment.
Dustin was ranked 41st in the UK’s Empire magazine of Top 100 Movie Stars of all time in 1977.
Dustin has a reputation amongst his fellow actors as being difficult to work with.
Dustin was first married to Anne Byrne Hoffman from May 4 1969 till October 6, 1980 where they got divorced after 2 children.
Dustin claims he went into acting because he “Did not want to work or go into the service”.
While Dustin was attending College one of his friends told him to take an acting class because “Nobody Flunks Acting” so he did.
Dustin graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1955.
Dustin birth name is Dustin Lee Hoffman.
Dustin was born on August 8 1937.
Dustin appeared in "The Simpsons" under the name of Sam Etic.
As of 2001, Dustin has won 6 Golden Globe Awards and has been nominated 13 times.
Dustin was nominated for an Academy Award in 1968 for "The Graduate", again in 1970 for "Midnight Cowboy", in '75 for "Lenny", in 1983 for "Tootsie" and again in 1998 for "Wag the Dog" -- he won the Academy Award in 1980 for "Kramer vs. Kramer" and again in 1989 for "Rain Man".
Dustin did a TV commercial for Volkswagen automobiles in 1966.
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