160 Quotes by Dustin Hoffman

I mean, I don’t think I’m alone when I look at the homeless person or the bum or the psychotic or the drunk or the drug addict or the criminal and see their baby pictures in my mind’s eye. You don’t think they were cute like every other baby?

If you’re waiting for the job, you’re dead.

Money is another pressure. I’m not complaining, I’m just saying that there’s a certain luxury in having no money. I spent ten years in New York not having it, not worrying about it. Suddenly you have it, then you worry, where is it going? Am I doing the right thing with it?

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

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.

Now, I’m simply working with people I want to work with. I just want to have good working experiences and let the dice fall where they may.

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.