Dustin Hoffman Quotes

Dustin Hoffman Quotes & Sayings

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There's nothing that I love more than predawn. I'm with the dogs, I make coffee, and there's no one up. — Dustin Hoffman

I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil. — Dustin Hoffman

There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson. — John Schlesinger

I decided a long time ago but sometimes it takes you 40 years to get around to doing something - and that's the truthful answer. — Dustin Hoffman

I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits. — Dustin Hoffman

Now, I'm simply working with people I want to work with. I just want to have good working experiences and let the dice fall where they may. — Dustin Hoffman

How do you try to play 'Captain Hook' better than, or as well as, Dustin Hoffman? You can't. It's perfection. — Colin O'Donoghue

There are maybe 100 actors I look up to, but my first two favourite actors were Dustin Hoffman and Jack Nicholson. — Paul Dano

The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk. — Dustin Hoffman

That's what we're all looking for, the place where the work leads us. — Dustin Hoffman

I've been working since I was 18. People say something every time I cut my hair. They wouldn't say this to Dustin Hoffman. — Carole Bouquet

I feel like I went from being a boy to being a man, in some respects, through the help of Dustin Hoffman. — Patrick J. Adams

I don't believe in hell. I believe in unemployment, but not hell. — Dustin Hoffman

37 seconds, well used, is a lifetime. — Dustin Hoffman

A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution. — Dustin Hoffman

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

Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student. — 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

In my room as a kid ... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win. — Dustin Hoffman

Life is an occasion ... rise to it. — Dustin Hoffman

I want to thank my parents for not practicing birth control. — Dustin Hoffman

Life stinks, but that doesn't mean you don't enjoy it. — Dustin Hoffman

Next to that kid, we all look like onions. — Dustin Hoffman

I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in. — Dustin Hoffman

There's too many interesting women I have ... not had the experience to know in this life because I have been brainwashed. — Dustin Hoffman

Euthanasia is legal in Hollywood. They just kill the film if it doesn't succeed immediately. — Dustin Hoffman

If you can get out there and say I'm going to ... I'm willing to fail at what I feel is right, that's it. — Dustin Hoffman

One of the things you can do as an actor, is compensate for the things you can't do in life. — Dustin Hoffman

Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me ... aren't you? — Dustin Hoffman

Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us. — Dustin Hoffman

I'm a huge fan of Dustin Hoffman. — Sharlto Copley

If you're waiting for the job, you're dead. — Dustin Hoffman

This is your life. Now go make it the one you've always wanted. — Dustin Hoffman

Barbra Streisand has accomplished so much, and Dustin Hoffman as well. They are down to earth and approachable. I admire that. — Kevin Hart

The varying physical characteristics of the actors may also necessitate changes. Sean Connery is six feet four. Dustin Hoffman isn't. — Sidney Lumet

We're all a little nit autistic. — Dustin Hoffman

I think Dustin Hoffman's career I would love to emulate just because it's so diversified. — Michael Angarano

I think right now television is the best that it's ever been, and I think that it's the worst that film has ever been. — Dustin Hoffman

I knew I finally made it as a performer when I began hearing rumors that I was gay. — Dustin Hoffman

The truth is, I've made about 30 movies in 30 years, and I've been criticized for 30 years for not making more movies. — Dustin Hoffman

We need to band together as a unit every day, especially to conquer the strength of the AIDS virus. — Dustin Hoffman

Peter Pan, prepare to meet thy doom. — Dustin Hoffman

But I would reinvent myself if I could. As a sexy leading man! We all would like that, but I don't know how to. — Dustin Hoffman

I don't like the fact that I have to get older so fast, but I like the fact that I'm aging so well. — Dustin Hoffman

I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation. — Dustin Hoffman

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

I admire Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman for their sheer dedication to their craft. — Lavrenti Lopes

It's very painful for us to feel we deserve a life. That's the toughest thing. That we deserve to have a life. That can take a lifetime. — Dustin Hoffman

I'd say people that really inspired me at first were like, Dustin Hoffman, Jim Carrey ... serious Jim Carrey though. — Logan Lerman

My biggest fantasy love affair was with Dustin Hoffman. It's so bizarre. Also Anthony Hopkins. — Debra Messing

I love working, I'd be dead if I hadn't found myself as an actor I didn't have to be successful. — Dustin Hoffman

People compared Garden State to the Graduate, but when was the last time you saw Dustin Hoffman doing what I do? — Zach Braff

I feel cheated never being able to know what it's like to get pregnant, carry a child and breast feed. — Dustin Hoffman

It isn't a big jump in the imagination to see yourself living alone like Mr Hoppy. — Dustin Hoffman

If there is no direct threat why are we invading? — Dustin Hoffman

I'm sixty-eight, I cry every chance I can. — Dustin Hoffman

Humanity seized to exist when Israel was established. — Dustin Hoffman

I like to mimic my grandkids. I'm trying to understand the intensity of fixation on a leaf. Kids don't need anything else in their life. — Dustin Hoffman

It's so funny to get a call from Dustin Hoffman because he has that great voice. — Andie MacDowell

I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation. — Dustin Hoffman

Lightbulbs die, my sweet. I will depart. — Dustin Hoffman

God knows I've done enough crap in my life to grow a few flowers. — Dustin Hoffman

A "take" is an opportunity to fail ... and we think that we have to get it right all the time. — Dustin Hoffman

For a couple of years at the end of the 1970s, Dustin Hoffman was a fixture in our family. My father was his lawyer and friend. — John Burnham Schwartz

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

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

I was such a big Dustin Hoffman fan when I was young. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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

Blame is for God and small children. — Dustin Hoffman