Dustin Hoffman famous quotes

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

#Bored #Frightened #Anxious

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

#Trying #Seducing

Blame is for God and small children.
-- Dustin Hoffman

#Children #Atheism #Blame

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

#Death #Sweet #Dying

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

#Witty #Sunshine #Two

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

#School #Credit #Actors

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

#Fighting #Together #Viruses

I mean, I don't think I'm alone when I look at the homeless person or the bum or the psychotic or the drunk or the drug addict or the criminal and see their baby pictures in my mind's eye. You don't think they were cute like every other baby?
-- Dustin Hoffman

#Cute #Baby #Mean

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

#Thinking #Challenges #Insulting

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

#Sunset #Vacation #People

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

#Stars #Successful #Dying

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

#Wanted

There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom.
-- Dustin Hoffman

#Blessing #Boredom #Goes On

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

#Interesting #This Life #Brainwashed

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

#Criticism #Execution #Reviews

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

#Failing #Feels #Willing

The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty . . . no better than a beauty contest.
-- Dustin Hoffman

#Dirty #Awards #Contests

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

#Book #Writing #Film

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

#Memories #Men #Marathon

I stopped working a few years ago because I just lost a spark that I'd had before. I thought I'd just try writing, and maybe start directing, but I did it very quietly.
-- Dustin Hoffman

#Writing #Years #Trying

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

#Life Is #Occasions

I wanted to find my limitations so I decided to do Shylock. And if I fail? I've never been afraid of that. I have other fears - doing bad work knowingly is the worst fear.
-- Dustin Hoffman

#Acting #Shylock #Failing

Look at the studio filled with glamorous merchandise. Fabulous and exciting bonus prizes. Thousands of dollars in cash. Over $150,000 just waiting to be won as we present our big bonanza of cash on Wheel Of Fortune.
-- Dustin Hoffman

#Money #Waiting #Wheels

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

#Money #Believe #Unemployment

There's a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that many men are having allergic reactions to latex condoms. They say they cause severe swelling. So what's the problem?
-- Dustin Hoffman

#Sexy #Men #Doctors

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

#Together #Fantasy #Myth

Many actors want to play Hamlet and Macbeth. Ever since I became an actor, from the very beginning I just wanted to play a Shetland pony. I cannot explain why
-- Dustin Hoffman

#Play #Ponies #Actors

Stories? We all spend our lives telling them, about this, about that, about people … But some? Some stories are so good we wish they’d never end. They’re so gripping that we’ll go without sleep just to see a little bit more. Some stories bring us laughter and sometimes they bring us tears … but isn’t that what a great story does? Makes you feel? Stories that are so powerful … they really are with us forever.
-- Dustin Hoffman

#Powerful #Laughter #Sleep

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

#Flower #Writing #Done

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

#War #Believe #Oil

So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me.
-- Dustin Hoffman

#Army #College #Years

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

#Successful #Men #Wife

For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that's reprehensible,
-- Dustin Hoffman

#Country #Grief #Believe

The plight of the actor, even if he's a star, is the plight of the women's movement. They're saying the same thing to us: get into bed, give me a good time, then give me something to eat, go get the laundry, be a good girl.
-- Dustin Hoffman

#Girl #Stars #Giving

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

#Meaningful #Lifetime #Used

Money is another pressure. I'm not complaining, I'm just saying that there's a certain luxury in having no money. I spent ten years in New York not having it, not worrying about it. Suddenly you have it, then you worry, where is it going? Am I doing the right thing with it?
-- Dustin Hoffman

#New York #Years #Luxury

Well first of all, it's hard to shoot a movie and break for a long time and then come back and do, in a sense, one of the biggest scenes that each character had.
-- Dustin Hoffman

#Character #Long #Firsts

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

#Dog #Morning #Coffee

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

#Imagination #Bigs #Living Alone

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

#Kids #Winning #Play

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

#Children #Pregnancy #Able

People like Johnny Depp are an exception. He is the current model of what an actor should be. His body of work speaks volumes. He was so under-rated for so long, but he will have longevity - and it is such a gratifying thrill to see he is finally getting the recognition he deserves.
-- Dustin Hoffman

#Long #People #Thrill

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

#Beauty #Kids #Looks

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

#Life #Mean #Stink

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

#Years #Complaining #Truth Is

If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy.
-- Dustin Hoffman

#Husband #Nice #Caring

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

#Peter #Doom

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

#Threat #Direct

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

#Thinking #Sheep #Black