Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I wanted to be a jazz pianist, but I wasn't good enough. I got into city college because I didn't have the grades to get into university. I took acting because it was a way to get three credits. I just needed three credits and my friend told me to take acting because it was like gym - nobody fails you. I took it and that's literally how I got involved in acting.

Dustin Hoffman's Popular Quotes

It's true what they say about failure. You don't learn from success.

- Dustin Hoffman

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.

- Dustin Hoffman

You spend so much of your life basing yourself on what you think other people think of you. Then you realise that maybe one of the purposes of life i…

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Depressed, anxious, sad, frightened? Yes. But I've never been bored.

- Dustin Hoffman

To have a successful marriage, a man must, on a fundamental level be scared shitless of his wife.

- Dustin Hoffman

I did a movie called Marathon Man and it was one of my best memories.

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Life is an occasion...rise to it.

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I lived below the official American poverty line until I was 31.

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I'd like to thank my parents for not practicing birth control.

- Dustin Hoffman