160 Quotes by Dustin Hoffman

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

That’s what we’re all looking for, the place where the work leads us.

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

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.