Best Dustin Hoffman Quotes
- In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win. Come Back
- I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation. Challenge
- 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. Fail
- A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution. Another Stay
- It isn’t a big jump in the imagination to see yourself living alone like Mr Hoppy. Alone
- Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very… Black
- There's nothing that I love more than predawn. I'm with the dogs, I make coffee, and there's no one up. Coffee
- This is your life. Now go make it the one you've always wanted. Always Wanted
- 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… Administration
- If there is no direct threat why are we invading? Direct
- Depressed, anxious, sad, frightened? Yes. But I've never been bored. Anxious
- 37 seconds, well used, is a lifetime. Lifetime
- 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,… All
- 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… Acting
- 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… Certain
- 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… Beings
- 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… Addict
- I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits. 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… Envy
- The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk. Basic
- 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… Acting
- 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… Aptly
- 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… Another Reason