A Quote by Philip Seymour Hoffman

I had a father who was a traveling salesman.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

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Philip Seymour Hoffman
American - Actor
July 23, 1967 - February 2, 2014

My father had always been a traveling salesman - New England, the South, whatever.

Nat Hentoff

I was a salesman just out of college, traveling all over American roads in the cause of selling handbags to stores that would in turn sell them to American women, not unlike my father had done.

Tom Junod

I've always had a bawdy sense of humor. My father was a traveling salesman and he would bring jokes home. He would say, "Honey, you can take this one to school, but you can't take that one to school."

Betty White

I had an acting teacher tell me once that if you're playing a car salesman, you don't want to be an OK car salesman, you want to play the best car salesman.

Aaron Tveit

To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility.

Honore de Balzac

Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman.

Carey Williams

Because you’re such a good salesman, and if you go work for a company, they’re going to use you as a salesman. If you’re going to be a salesman, you might as well be selling something worthwhile, like education

Randy Pausch

A lot of the stuff that's happening now, I can trace back to 'Death of a Salesman.' Francine Maisler, the casting director, saw 'Death of a Salesman' and called me in for 'Unbroken.' The casting director of 'Normal Heart' had seen 'Salesman' too. I look back on it now, and it's like one thing led to another; it was a chain reaction.

Finn Wittrock

Montefusco bare-hands it and throws him out. That grounder will make you a traveling salesman in a hurry!

Jerry Coleman

I don't think I would have been a good architect. Really, I have thought about this from time to time, and I might have wound up like my father, who never did find that which he could devote his life to. He sort of drifted from job to job. He was a traveling salesman, he was a bookkeeper, he was an office manager, he was here, there, there. And however enthusiastic he was at the beginning, his job would bore him. If I hadn't had the writing, I think I might have replicated what he was doing, which would not have been good.

Donald E. Westlake

My father was a salesman, and I always said I wouldn't be one.

Daniel Woodrell

I was 20 years old. I had moved to Los Angeles from Columbus, Ohio. I was working as a piano salesman - a terrible piano salesman. I couldn't sell them. I could demonstrate them, but people wouldn't buy them from me.

Michael Feinstein

I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt to persuade people to spend twenty-five dollars on a hardcover book by me.

Ian Frazier

My real journey had very little to do with traveling Europe, and a whole lot to do with traveling my own mind.

Christina Baldwin

My father is a retired army captain and banking software salesman, and my mother is an English teacher.

Jim Parrack

If the British prose style is Churchillian, America is the tobacco auctioneer, the barker; Runyon, Lardner, W.W., the traveling salesman who can sell the world the Brooklyn Bridge every day, can put anything over on you and convince you that tomatoes grow at the South Pole.

Ishmael Reed

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