Quotes from Dustin Hoffman

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.

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

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

Blame is for God and small children.

I hope to God I don't win an Oscar tomorrow night. It would really depress me if I did. I really don't deserve it. It wasn't that important a part anyhow.

Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student.

Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me... aren't you?

Humanity seized to exist when Israel was established.

It isn't a big jump in the imagination to see yourself living alone like Mr Hoppy.

For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that's reprehensible.

Depressed, anxious, sad, frightened? Yes. But I've never been bored.

I got into acting so that I could meet girls. Pretty girls came later. First, I wanted to start off with someone with two legs, who'd smile at me and look soft.

This is your life. Now go make it the one you've always wanted.

I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.

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

I feel cheated never being able to know what it's like to get pregnant, carry a child and breastfeed.

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 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?

For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that's reprehensible.

Life stinks, but that doesn't mean you don't enjoy it.

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

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.

Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student.

There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom.