Quotes by Dustin Hoffman

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.

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 don’t like the fact that I have to get older so fast, but I like the fact that I’m aging so well.

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

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?

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

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?

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

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.