Dustin Hoffman Quotes, Thoughts and images

Depressed, anxious, sad, frightened? Yes. But I've never been bored.

This is your life. Now go make it the one you've always wanted.

I don't like the fact that I have to get older so fast, but I like the fact that I'm aging so well.

I'd like to thank my parents for not practicing birth control.

It's true what they say about failure. You don't learn from success.

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

37 seconds, well used, is a lifetime.

To have a successful marriage, a man must, on a fundamental level be scared shitless of his wife.

Life is an occasion...rise to it.

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

I knew I finally made it as a performer when I began hearing rumors that I was gay.

I love acting, and I`m not going to determine what I do based on what I fear other people might think. I do what I want to do.

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

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.

Blame is for God and small children.

If you're waiting for the job, you're dead.

I lived below the official American poverty line until I was 31.

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

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

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

Many actors want to play Hamlet and Macbeth. Ever since I became an actor, from the very beginning I just wanted to play a Shetland pony. I cannot explain why

Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me... aren't you?

The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty . . . no better than a beauty contest.

It's very painful for us to feel we deserve a life. That's the toughest thing. That we deserve to have a life. That can take a lifetime.

I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation.

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

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

We need to band together as a unit every day, especially to conquer the strength of the AIDS virus.

Peter Pan, prepare to meet thy doom.

We're all a little nit autistic.

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

Humanity seized to exist when Israel was established.

There's too many interesting women I have…not had the experience to know in this life because I have been brainwashed.

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.

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.

Next to that kid, we all look like onions.

I'm sixty-eight, I cry every chance I can.

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

That's what we're all looking for, the place where the work leads us.