Dustin Hoffman Quotes

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  • Actor
  • born 1937
  • 107 quotes

Dustin Hoffman, an actor (born 1937), is quoted 107 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Thinking, Men, Actors and Failing.

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We're all a little nit autistic.

Life is an occasion...rise to it.

Blame is for God and small children.

Peter Pan, prepare to meet thy doom.

37 seconds, well used, is a lifetime.

Lightbulbs die, my sweet. I will depart.

Next to that kid, we all look like onions.

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

If you're waiting for the job, you're dead.

If there is no direct threat why are we invading?

Humanity seized to exist when Israel was established.

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

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

I'd like to thank my parents for not practicing birth control.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I love acting, and I`m not going to determine what I do based on what I fear other people might think. I do what I want to do.

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

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.

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