Asked what changed in the tide to allow them to be stars, Hoffman laughs and replies, A decline in the culture. ... Everyone has a chance if you're lucky enough to find the property and we all three individually were very fortunate.
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If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being.Gene Hackman
I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press.
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The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.
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I got fired, I think, because I just didn't fulfill the director's and the writer's idea of what the part should've been. In rehearsals, I do a lot of searching around, I try not to perform and I really feel confident in what I'm doing. I mean, you can go first day and perform and probably won't go further than that. But the way that we were all trained in the Fifties and Sixties, you needed to keep searching and so, I was doing that, and they decided that I was just taking too much time.
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I do not like assassins, or men of low character.
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