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Dustin Hoffman

"I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits."

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Asa Don Brown

"Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it."

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Asa Don Brown

"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."

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Asa Don Brown

"It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor."

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Asa Don Brown

"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."

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Asa Don Brown

"A reporter discovers, in the course of many years of interviewing celebrities, that most actors are more attractive behind a spotlight than over a spot of tea."

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Asa Don Brown

"You can't get an actor to do something that is beyond his range, so you have to be aware of the range of the actor and, if necessary, alter the part to suit the actor."

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Asa Don Brown

"As an actor, I've grown considerably. It's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I've really opened up a lot."

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Asa Don Brown

"James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you if he finds it incorrect."

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Asa Don Brown

"The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story."

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Asa Don Brown

"I haven't gotten labeled as a Hispanic actor."

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Dustin Hoffman
"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?"

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Dustin Hoffman
"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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Dustin Hoffman
"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."

Power

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Dustin Hoffman
"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."

Film

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Dustin Hoffman
"A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution."

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Dustin Hoffman
"I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits."

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Dustin Hoffman
"Life stinks, but that doesn't mean you don't enjoy it."

Life

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Dustin Hoffman
"The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk."

Life

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Dustin Hoffman
"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."

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Dustin Hoffman
"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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