Top 24 Quotes by Dustin Hoffman

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.

In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us.

Blame is for God and small children.

A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.

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.

I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits.

I did a movie called Marathon Man and it was one of my best memories.

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 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.