Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Lee Hoffmanis an American actor and a director, with a career in film, television, and theatre since 1960...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth8 August 1937
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
actors can-do
One of the things you can do as an actor, is compensate for the things you can't do in life.
parent birth-control want
I want to thank my parents for not practicing birth control.
poverty lines american-poverty
I lived below the official American poverty line until I was 31.
successful actors found
I love working, I'd be dead if I hadn't found myself as an actor I didn't have to be successful.
girl two acting
I got into acting so that I could meet girls. Pretty girls came later. First, I wanted to start off with someone with two legs, who'd smile at me and look soft.
thinking opportunity failing
A "take" is an opportunity to fail ... and we think that we have to get it right all the time.
succeed hollywood film
Euthanasia is legal in Hollywood. They just kill the film if it doesn't succeed immediately.
people looks poverty
Poverty is not dated. Homeless people have looked the same since the thirteenth century. Go back to the times of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Look at photographs. It's amazing. The face on a homeless person is timeless.
wife heaven tears
I walked out of the theater and started crying. My wife asked me, 'Why are you crying?' I said, 'Because I can't do that.' I didn't know how he did it. I've never seen anything like that. It's like this feat, this Rodin sculpture to me. It's like hearing an opera singer and the tears go down your face because it's not human what they're doing. It's like sounds of heaven.
depressing winning night
I hope to God I don't win an Oscar tomorrow night. It would really depress me if I did. I really don't deserve it. It wasn't that important a part anyhow.
kids trying needs
I like to mimic my grandkids. I'm trying to understand the intensity of fixation on a leaf. Kids don't need anything else in their life.
israel humanity
Humanity seized to exist when Israel was established.
kids parent nests
The better you are as a parent, the richer the nest you've built, the more difficult it is for your kids to leave. So they have to invent things to dislike about you. And they're brilliant at it.
two space years
There is something unnatural about marriage. These two people are not going to be the same people in a few years. The trick is to live your own life while sharing the same space.