Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Dustin Hoffman Quotes
AccessibilityCost-EffectivenessExpanding ReachInnovationEnsuring Visibility 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.
GriefManipulationPolitical Ethics 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.
ChallengePerseveranceResilience 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.
MoviesActingMemorySuccessLegacy I did a movie called Marathon Man and it was one of my best memories.
ChoiceCareer ChangeParental ApprovalLife DecisionsExpectations vs Reality 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.
Lost SparkNew BeginningsQuiet Pursuit 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.
HumorEssentialsSimplicity The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk.
TalentSacrificeConflictGeniusFamily 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.
MotivationUnderlying ReasonsPowerAssumptionInfluence If there is no direct threat why are we invading?
MotherhoodFemale ExperienceLonging I feel cheated never being able to know what it's like to get pregnant, carry a child and breast feed.
Success 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.
RebirthHuman ExperienceBoredomDepressionContinuity 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.
ResilienceSelf-Discovery I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits.
JunketExperienceBrevityHumor 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.
WritingFilmmakingActingDirecting I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.
Black SheepFamilyEducationIndividuality 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.
BigotryRacismSuperiorityHuman Nature I think there's always going to be some kind of bigotry or some kind of racism. There has to be, because people can't feel that they have any hero qualities unless there's someone beneath them.
HegemonyMoneyPowerOil 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.
PerseveranceResilienceVictory In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.
AdmirationCreativityVacation 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.