Dustin Hoffman Quotes & Sayings

“The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation.”

“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 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.”

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

“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.”