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
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
I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in. – Dustin Hoffman
I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits. – Dustin Hoffman
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
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
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
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
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
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
In my room as a kid… I’d play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win. – Dustin Hoffman
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
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
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
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
I feel cheated never being able to know what it’s like to get pregnant, carry a child and breast feed. – Dustin Hoffman
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
