Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Dustin Hoffman Quotes
AccessibilityCost-EffectivenessEnsuring VisibilityExpanding ReachInnovation 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.
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.
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.
EssentialsHumorSimplicity The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk.
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.
Career ChangeChoiceExpectations vs RealityLife DecisionsParental Approval 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.
ActingLegacyMemoryMoviesSuccess I did a movie called Marathon Man and it was one of my best memories.
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.
Artistic IntegrityBoundariesProfessionalismRespect I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation.
PerseveranceResilienceVictory In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.
HumilityPerseveranceRecognitionResilienceValidation A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
BigotryHuman NatureRacismSuperiority 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.
HegemonyMoneyOilPower 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.
Black SheepEducationFamilyIndividuality 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.
ResilienceSelf-Discovery I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits.
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.
ActingDirectingFilmmakingWriting I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.
BoredomContinuityDepressionHuman ExperienceRebirth 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.
AssumptionInfluenceMotivationPowerUnderlying Reasons If there is no direct threat why are we invading?
ConflictFamilyGeniusSacrificeTalent 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.