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Dustin Hoffman

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Dustin Hoffman

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Birthday: August 8, 1937

Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, United States

Nationality: United States Of America

Occupations: Film Actor, Stage Actor, Voice Actor, Film Director, Film Producer

Spouse: Lisa Hoffman

Total quotes: 1

“"If I was going to be a woman, I would want to be as beautiful as possible. And they said to me, ‘Uh, that’s as beautiful as we can get you.’ And I went home and started crying to my wife, and I said, ‘I have to make this picture.’ And she said, ‘Why?’ And I said, ‘Because I think I’m an interesting woman when I look at myself on screen, and I know that if I met myself at a party, I would never talk to that character because she doesn’t fulfill, physically, the demands that we’re brought up to think that women have to have in order for us to ask them out.’ She says, ‘What are you saying?’ and I said, ‘There’s too many interesting women I have not had the experience to know in this life because I have been brainwashed.’ It was not what it felt like to be a woman. It was what it felt like to be someone that people didn’t respect, for the wrong reasons. I know it’s a comedy. But comedy’s a serious business."”

— Dustin Hoffman, Dustin Hoffman on TOOTSIE and his character Dorothy Michaels

Tagged: Being a woman, Makeup, beauty, feminism

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