160 Quotes by Dustin Hoffman

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.

I decided a long time ago but sometimes it takes you 40 years to get around to doing something - and that's the truthful answer.

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

There's a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that many men are having allergic reactions to latex condoms. They say they cause severe swelling. So what's the problem?

37 seconds, well used, is a lifetime.

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.

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.

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

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.