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Dustin Hoffman Quotes

Blame is for God and small children.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: August 8, 1937

Topics

God Children Blame Small

I like underdogs, I like anti-heroes - people that have a hard time overcoming things in life.

Matthias Schoenaerts

Life Time People Overcoming Hard

Critics... They're like traffic cops. They say what they have to say, then leave, and another guy moves in ,and he has his say - and it's often just the opposite. The result is either critical acclaim or critical murder, and neither has any bearing on my music or direction.

Music Direction Result Traffic Say

Sometimes I take the watch, or I take the shoes, but usually the souvenir is to take the life you had with those directors, or the crew - the camera person, the lighting person. When you finish a film it's like a little death. You had a family for a bit, and you finish the movie and you probably will never see each other again.

Life Family Shoes Death Camera You

The blues scale was the first thing I learned. It's just a pentatonic scale with a flat seventh and a few notes that sound cool when you bend them. And because people have amalgamated the blues into this rock-blues scale, if you're using it, you better sound like a real authentic blues player.

People Cool Better You Blues Bend

It's difficult working with very rich actors, because inevitably they become a little spoilt, and the managers and agents tend to control things more than is healthy.

Control Rich Healthy Become More

I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say.

Say Two Embarrassed Nonfiction Books

It's really sad down there. Everyone's sitting around asking to help and BP won't let anybody do anything. People are coming down to help. People want to help.

Sad People Help Down Want Sitting

Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.

Science His Forte

Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it.

Sharon Salzberg

Life Value Voting Breathing Abstract

The U.A.E. has a progressive vision for transforming its economy, and Hyperloop One plays right into that by increasing access to the region and beyond.

Shervin Pishevar

Vision Beyond Right Economy Access

For a couple of years, I focused more on producing because I wanted to be close to home, after traveling a lot for work.

Work Home Focused More Years Close

This isn't meant to make me sound interesting and rock 'n' roll, but I wouldn't want to live with me a lot of the time.

Live Time Me Interesting Want Rock

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