Dustin Hoffman

“If I was going to be a woman, I would want to be as beautiful as possible. And they said to me,…

— Dustin Hoffman

“When King Lear dies in Act V, do you know what Shakespeare has written? He’s written “He dies.” That’s all, nothing more.…

— Dustin Hoffman

Usually, those people don't even like actors and they can't wait until they get in the cutting room. They kind of break…

— Dustin Hoffman

I think right now television is the best that it’s ever been, and I think that it’s the worst that film has…

— Dustin Hoffman

I think we all felt it on this movie - crew and cast. You never know when you're making a movie... no…

— Dustin Hoffman

I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are…

— Dustin Hoffman

The trumpet player, Ronnie Hughes, has still got his chops today but for some strange reason the culture doesn't call him because…

— Dustin Hoffman

Stories? We all spend our lives telling them, about this, about that, about people … But some? Some stories are so good…

— Dustin Hoffman

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

— Dustin Hoffman

People like Johnny Depp are an exception. He is the current model of what an actor should be. His body of work…

— Dustin Hoffman

I knew that we had an obligation and that was to keep an energy in it and try to keep the audience…

— Dustin Hoffman

I think there's always going to be some kind of bigotry or some kind of racism. There has to be, because people…

— Dustin Hoffman

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

— Dustin Hoffman

Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family,…

— Dustin Hoffman

Humanity seized to exist when Israel was established.

— Dustin Hoffman

We're not allowed in the cutting room - and that's extraordinary. So, when a director is asking for certain nuances and colours…

— Dustin Hoffman

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

— Dustin Hoffman

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

— Dustin Hoffman

If there is no direct threat why are we invading?

— Dustin Hoffman

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

— Dustin Hoffman

But I would reinvent myself if I could. As a sexy leading man! We all would like that, but I don't know…

— Dustin Hoffman

There is something unnatural about marriage. These two people are not going to be the same people in a few years. The…

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

— Dustin Hoffman

Well, 45-odd years of doing it, so we all pile up the things we like about directors and the things we don't…

— Dustin Hoffman

So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of…

— Dustin Hoffman