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
country believe taken
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 manipulated the grief of the country and I think that's reprehensible,
thinking television film
I think right now television is the best that it’s ever been, and I think that it’s the worst that film has ever been.
crazy character acting
Acting didn't solve much! If it did, I would have ended up much less crazy than I am today, but I'm not. At least for me, acting is a relief - a relief to be able to admit certain things about myself and disguise in my work, in my characters.
thinking challenges insulting
I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation.
sunset vacation envy
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.
stars successful dying
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.
interesting this-life brainwashed
There's too many interesting women I have…not had the experience to know in this life because I have been brainwashed.
dirty awards contests
The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty . . . no better than a beauty contest.
death sweet dying
Lightbulbs die, my sweet. I will depart.
imagination bigs living-alone
It isn’t a big jump in the imagination to see yourself living alone like Mr Hoppy.
blessing boredom goes-on
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.
real thinking tunnels
You're always in a tunnel that you can't see the end of. But there's something that took place on this movie that I don't think we expected and that was that once we decided that the entire cast would be real retired opera singers and retired musicians... and these people the phone hadn't rung for them for 20 or 40 years even though they can deliver.
stars home people
In terms of the stars, the only ones I cast were Billy Connolly and Pauline Collins. I was in Los Angeles working and a lot of this took place on the telephone. I'd met Maggie [Smith] once and I'd come back-stage, which I'm usually loathe to do because as an actor you don't want people coming back because you want to get home [laughs].
successful kissing opera
Tom [Courtenay] and Albert Finney met Ron Harwood on the dresser, so that's how it started. It's a wonderful documentary. It's called Tosca's Kiss and Mr Hardwood told me about it when I asked him what the genesis was. It was made in 1983 and Verdi, who was rich and successful, toward the end of his life decided to build a mansion for himself in Milan, where he lived, and he stipulated that when he died opera singers and musicians - because he knew so many who were no longer playing at the Scala and some were poor - could live there.