Dustin Hoffman quotes

Dustin Hoffman is an acclaimed American actor, recognized for his versatile roles in film and theater. Audiences and critics alike praise his ability to portray complex and challenging characters. He has received numerous prestigious awards throughout his long and influential career. Here are 28 of his quotes:

Life stinks, but that doesn't mean you don't enjoy it. (Dustin Hoffman)
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. View quote
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I did a movie called Marathon Man and it was one of my best memories. View quote
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A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution. View quote
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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. View quote
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The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk. View quote
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Blame is for God and small children. View quote
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I feel cheated never being able to know what it's like to get pregnant, carry a child and breast feed. View quote
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I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits. View quote
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I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation. View quote
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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)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in. View quote
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If there is no direct threat why are we invading? View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that 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)
In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win. View quote
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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. View quote
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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? View quote
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Next to that kid, we all look like onions. View quote
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Dustin Hoffman

Dustin Hoffman - Image
Photo: Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0
Occupation: American Actor
Born: August 8, 1937
Quotes count: 28
Wikipedia: Dustin Hoffman

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