Dustin Hoffman Quotes

We're all a little nit autistic.

Life is an occasion...rise to it.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

I wanted to find my limitations so I decided to do Shylock. And if I fail? I've never been afraid of that. I have other fears - doing bad work knowingly is the worst fear.

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.

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

Humanity seized to exist when Israel was established.

So, they had this 40-odd year friendship with each other and with Mr Harwood. So, when I came on it Albert, Tom and Maggie were in the cast. But then Albert wasn't up for it, so he had to withdraw.

Well, 45-odd years of doing it, so we all pile up the things we like about directors and the things we don't like about directors. And sometimes they're very similar.

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.

I love working, I'd be dead if I hadn't found myself as an actor I didn't have to be successful.

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.

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.