"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."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Dustin Hoffman

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“People have an annoying tendency to compare shoe prices with the cost of other things. They might say, 'Wow - those shoes cost as much as a sofa!' Well, this may be true, but the comparison is so silly. After all, you can't wear a sofa.”

Source : Mimi Pond (1985). “Shoes never lie”, Berkley Pub Group
“Poetry is such an ancient art, and I consider myself young within that art.”

Source : Source: lunchticket.org
“In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.”
“The worst pain in our lives comes from the mistakes we refuse to acknowledge--the things we've done that are so our of harmony with who we are that we can't bear to look at them.”

Source : John Verdon (2010). “Think of a Number (Dave Gurney, No. 1)”, p.102, Broadway Books
“If we are to be happy, decent and secure of our souls: drink some kind of fermented liquor with one's food; go on the water from time to time; dance on occasions, and sing in a chorus...”
“I try to shoot the first rehearsal because people are more spontaneous. People in real life don't really know where they are going to be either positioning themselves or how they will be saying their words. When people goof during the first take, it usually looks realistic.”
“I know I can be very standoffish . . .”

Source : "The Beaten Path / Author David Pelzer chronicles a nightmare childhood" by Jerry Carroll, www.sfgate.com. July 30, 1998.
“I always wanted a father. Any kind. A strict one, a funny one, one who bought me pink dresses, one who wished I was a boy. One who traveled, one who never got up out of his Morris chair. Doctor, lawyer, Indian chief. I wanted shaving cream in the sink and whistling on the stairs. I wanted pants hung by their cuffs from a dresser drawer. I wanted change jingling in a pocket and the sound of ice cracking in a cocktail glass at five thirty. I wanted to hear my mother laugh behind a closed door.”

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