Dustin Hoffman Quotes

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

Human, Bored, Understand

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

Alone, Mind, Drunk

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

School, Become, Actor

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

Envy, Nothing, Vacation

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

Able, Child, Pregnant

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

Challenge, She, Satisfied

Blame is for God and small children.
Dustin Hoffman

God, Children, Blame

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

Family, Good, Black

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

Life, Sunshine, Two

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

Good, Another, Stay

And that's another reason to make this movie: We can put plays on film now, at a relatively small cost, and they will reach an audience they would never have reached otherwise.
Dustin Hoffman

Small, Put, Another

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

Country, American, Painful

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

Money, Power, War

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

Best, Memories, Movie

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, Working

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, Lost, Thought

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

Why, Direct, Threat

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

Family, Nice, Husband

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

Win, Play, Fighter

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

Life, Mean, Enjoy

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

Together, Bring, Fantasy

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

Fear, Successful, Afraid

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

Parents, Acting, Wanted

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

Time, Character, Long

Well this is aptly called a junket, for both of us. I have never been to a house of prostitution, but I understand that you get in more than seven minutes.
Dustin Hoffman

Understand, Both, House

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Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: August 8, 1937

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