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.Collection: Fear
Blame is for God and small children.
The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk.
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.
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.
I did a movie called Marathon Man and it was one of my best memories.
Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us.
Life stinks, but that doesn't mean you don't enjoy it.
I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits.
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.
A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.
If there is no direct threat why are we invading?
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.
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.
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.
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.
I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.
I feel cheated never being able to know what it's like to get pregnant, carry a child and breast feed.
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.
I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation.
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.
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.
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 think there's always going to be some kind of bigotry or some kind of racism. There has to be, because people can't feel that they have any hero qualities unless there's someone beneath them.
This is your life. Now go make it the one you've always wanted.Collection: Stranger Than Fiction
Depressed, anxious, sad, frightened? Yes. But I've never been bored.Collection: Sad
You spend so much of your life basing yourself on what you think other people think of you. Then you realise that maybe one of the purposes of life is not to care.Collection: Thinking
I wanted to be a jazz pianist, but I wasn't good enough. I got into city college because I didn't have the grades to get into university. I took acting because it was a way to get three credits. I just needed three credits and my friend told me to take acting because it was like gym - nobody fails you. I took it and that's literally how I got involved in acting.Collection: Life
I'd like to thank my parents for not practicing birth control.Collection: Parent
Life is an occasion...rise to it.Collection: Life Is
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.Collection: Facts
To have a successful marriage, a man must, on a fundamental level be scared shitless of his wife.Collection: Successful
I knew I finally made it as a performer when I began hearing rumors that I was gay.Collection: Gay
Canada is like a nice family living over a biker bar . . . They keep telling the downstairs neighbors to keep down the noise, people are trying to sleep.Collection: Nice
I lived below the official American poverty line until I was 31.Collection: Lines
37 seconds, well used, is a lifetime.Collection: Meaningful
Humanity seized to exist when Israel was established.Collection: Israel
If you're waiting for the job, you're dead.Collection: Jobs
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.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Failing
Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me... aren't you?Collection: Movie
What makes divorce happen is that you can't be in the same space any more, for whatever reason - but the love stays. And that's the killer. That's where the vehemence and anger and rage comes from.Collection: Divorce
Euthanasia is legal in Hollywood. They just kill the film if it doesn't succeed immediately.Collection: Hollywood
I came in on this movie after there had been a director and I came in after Tom Courtenay had talked to Ron Harwood about making a movie. So, you know Tom and Albert Finney had been friends since the beginning of their career as they became stars around the same time - Tom always reminds me that Albert was first with Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and then Tom with The Long Distance Runner.Collection: Morning
You go to the cinema and you realize you're watching the third act. There is no first or second act. There is this massive film-making where you spend this incredible amount of money and play right to the demographic. You can tell how much money the film is going to make by how it does on the first weekend. The whole culture is in the crap house. It's not just true in the movies, it's also true in the theater.Collection: Weekend
I'm sixty-eight, I cry every chance I can.Collection: Eight
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.Collection: Acting
There were a few things that went into it. When you're doing something you're trying to be your audience at the same time, so if somebody tells me that this is a movie about retired opera singers, you think 'maybe I'll wait for it to come to DVD'. You're not rushing off to see it.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Years