Top 100 Dustin Quotes
#1. I got to work with Dustin Hoffman on a film called 'Billy Bathgate.' I got to work with Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn and Bob Zemeckis on 'Death Becomes Her.' There are still a few actors out there that I would like to work with.
Bruce Willis
#2. If I have to win one game, I'd have a hard time taking anybody over Dustin Pedroia as my second baseman.
Mariano Rivera
#3. I'm not an Adonis, that's for damn sure. I've never really thought of myself that way, and it doesn't matter to me. My favorite actors aren't Adonises. Dustin Hoffman is a flawed-looking man; he's amazing to me. Tom Hanks is flawed-looking; people love him. Same with Gene Hackman.
Shia Labeouf
#4. There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson.
John Schlesinger
#5. Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.
Ben Stiller
#6. Dustin Runnels came up to me and asked me if I made my peace with God today. I don't know if I ever had a fight with him.
Jerry Lawler
#8. He shrugged happily. Let's make plaid, canvas and compasses my absolute trademarks. Dustin McHugh. All plaid. All canvas. All the time. And I'm never lost. What say you, dork judge?
Anne Eliot
#9. I have played in the West for 14 years. I played against Dustin Byfuglien a lot. So it's not like I've been out East for my whole career and never played against the guy. That may have been blown out of proportion, I think.
Chris Pronger
#10. My heroes are Bill Murray and Dustin Hoffman. Those are the two actors that both do comedies and dramas, seamlessly. Also John C. Reilly and Philip Seymour Hoffman. They're all just great actors, neither comedic nor dramatic. They're just great actors.
Jonah Hill
#11. I keep trying to explain to people that the archetype of intelligence is not Dustin Hoffman in 'The Rain Man;' it is a human being, period. It is squishy things that explode in a vacuum, leaving footprints on their moon.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#12. I feel like I went from being a boy to being a man, in some respects, through the help of Dustin Hoffman.
Patrick J. Adams
#13. For a couple of years at the end of the 1970s, Dustin Hoffman was a fixture in our family. My father was his lawyer and friend.
John Burnham Schwartz
#14. For a brief second, I entertained the idea of ripping off my gloves, rushing down the hall, and jumping on Dustin's back like a psychotic monkey.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#15. Hey now, it issthhhh new technology. Dustin: "The dentissthh says all my teethtths will ssseparate if I don't keep it in."
Jenna: "But our eyes could separate if you don't take it out -
Anne Eliot
#16. The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro, like Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood who in their 70s or 80s can still act.
Jackie Chan
#17. I realize now what a great job my wife Michelle did, not only in raising our children, Melissa, Amy, Dustin, and Jenna, but in taking care of me.
Robin Yount
#18. Beast, before I fuck up my car, you have to say it." Beast growled. "Say it!" Dustin yelled. "Aw fuck, Dustin! You're my best friend!" The line went dead,
T.S. Joyce
#19. How do you try to play 'Captain Hook' better than, or as well as, Dustin Hoffman? You can't. It's perfection.
Colin O'Donoghue
#20. Shall I count to ten and then ring a bell before I dive down between your legs?" Dustin teased and sent her a wicked smile.
Kris Cook
#21. Somebody wrote a script around us, but Dustin Abraham came with the best one.
Method Man
#22. There are maybe 100 actors I look up to, but my first two favourite actors were Dustin Hoffman and Jack Nicholson.
Paul Dano
#23. I'd say people that really inspired me at first were like, Dustin Hoffman, Jim Carrey ... serious Jim Carrey though.
Logan Lerman
#24. I started writing and acting in these little plays and then I was discovered by Dustin Hoffman. He got me my first audition for a film he was in, called 'I Heart Huckabees.'
Jonah Hill
#25. I think Dustin Hoffman's career I would love to emulate just because it's so diversified.
Michael Angarano
#26. The emotional elevation of the film is due in no small measure to the extraordinarily engaging performances of Anne Bancroft as the wife-mother-mistress, Dustin Hoffman as the lumbering Lancelot, and Katherine Ross as his fair Elaine.
Andrew Sarris
#27. Five thousand miles away and I can still feel your turbulence on my skin, Dustin; your grit stuck in the chambers of my heart ... and all the silence that has followed it.
Please write me back.
Brandon Shire
#28. I've been working since I was 18. People say something every time I cut my hair. They wouldn't say this to Dustin Hoffman.
Carole Bouquet
#29. Bad movies: they can be tatty classics of crazed ineptitude, like Edward D. Wood's 'Glen or Glenda' and 'Plan 9 from Outer Space,' or big-budget misfires like the 1987 'Ishtar,' a would-be comedy that sent Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman on a Hope-Crosby Road to Dystopia.
Richard Corliss
#30. Ridiculously - fortunately - my first job was with Dustin Hoffman. I had a little part in this movie called Tootsie. And he taught me how to watch dailies. That it was very important.
Geena Davis
#31. Dustin Hoffman was the greatest. He had so much information to give and he mesmerized me. He really feels for actors who are just starting out and remembers his early days like they were yesterday.
Amy Weber
#32. My biggest fantasy love affair was with Dustin Hoffman. It's so bizarre. Also Anthony Hopkins.
Debra Messing
#33. Barbra Streisand has accomplished so much, and Dustin Hoffman as well. They are down to earth and approachable. I admire that.
Kevin Hart
#34. I did a film which was considered an independent movie with Dustin Hoffman and Andy Garcia called Confidence, and that's the type of film I was willing to take a chance on that because of the caliber of people involved with the film.
Morris Chestnut
#36. I admire Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman for their sheer dedication to their craft.
Lavrenti Lopes
#37. Paul McCartney and The Beatles in general are my idols. And I love Sting. I got to meet Sting. That was really cool. Dustin Hoffman is my favorite actor. Also, I think of Magic Johnson as an idol.
Nat Wolff
#38. Dustin Hoffman said this one time, that if he hadn't made it as a film star, he would still be happy as a character actor because he was a character actor because of his face from day one, so he would always work in the theater.
Denis Leary
#39. People compared Garden State to the Graduate, but when was the last time you saw Dustin Hoffman doing what I do?
Zach Braff
#40. The varying physical characteristics of the actors may also necessitate changes. Sean Connery is six feet four. Dustin Hoffman isn't.
Sidney Lumet
#41. Holy mother of ripped-gorgeous.
Get over the assets. Get over the assets.
It's an award-winning six pack. SO WHAT? Get over it.
He's just your friend. Your Dustin McHugh.
Anne Eliot
#42. It's so funny to get a call from Dustin Hoffman because he has that great voice.
Andie MacDowell
#43. Every storm has a brilliance, Dustin; has beauty when you look at it from a distance. It blurs all those incessant imperfections we seek to hollow out with each of our hopes. But when you step into its still center, when you see it's fury and its power, you also see its beauty; its grace.
Brandon Shire
#44. There's people who live life authentically and there's people who live a life of fabrication. And it begins with the question of how you're gonna do your time. And these are observations I made about Folsom when I was there with Dustin Hoffman when he was directing 'Straight Time.'
Michael Mann
#45. We all were there for the readings, the screen tests, and we knew. We knew Dustin was the guy right away.
Buck Henry
#47. The better you are as a parent, the richer the nest you've built, the more difficult it is for your kids to leave. So they have to invent things to dislike about you. And they're brilliant at it.
Dustin Hoffman
#48. It's very painful for us to feel we deserve a life. That's the toughest thing. That we deserve to have a life. That can take a lifetime.
Dustin Hoffman
#49. 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?
Dustin Hoffman
#50. I don't really go back over my old shows, but I'll see them occasionally, mostly I want to go back and change things about the character as I look at them.
Dustin Diamond
#51. You see people who are 19 or 20 years old and they don't even know who The Who is. It's like, where have you been? Justin Timberlake? C'mon. Where are the roots?
Dustin Diamond
#52. Being the new guy's always great because you get to go in fresh with your own choices and you get to bring new life and breath and a new energy into something that's already established.
Dustin Clare
#53. I've been blessed to have done different roles, but I don't think people see me as funny.
Dustin Diamond
#54. I don't think you can ever make enough to be set for life. Well, I guess there are limits. In the billions, I guess.
Dustin Diamond
#55. My wife always says that I will be stuck with this forever: I am the difficult one. With Jack Nicholson they always said it was drugs. Warren Beatty is supposed to have screwed everything that jumped off the curve. I'll tell you, in reality a few of us had as many girls as Warren.
Dustin Hoffman
#56. I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower.
Dustin Diamond
#57. Sorry dude, but we're in a boxing match and you went against your word and tried to make me look weak and stupid in front of 17 million people. That's just not gonna happen.
Dustin Diamond
#58. A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
Dustin Hoffman
#59. Who she walks with, will tell you if she's worth it.
Dustin Cruz
#60. I want to thank my parents for not practicing birth control.
Dustin Hoffman
#61. Focus on performance. Outcome is going to happen. No stress about that. Focus on performance.
Dustin Poirier
#62. I'm left handed, but my dad taught me to play guitar right-handed.
Dustin Diamond
#63. Sometimes I have to be pulled down to reality. I want everything to happen all at once.
Dustin Yellin
#64. The thing about Canadian women is that they seem less likely to bring up that they're Canadian. You here less about Canadian actresses than actors, I don't know why.
Dustin Milligan
#66. The only reason you should be an entrepreneur is because that's the only way the idea will come into the world.
Dustin Moskovitz
#67. I don't see many people with longevity anymore. Everything was harder when I started, and you had to take acting lessons, do theater parts, work on connections and then get lucky. The technology is good, but it's also a hindrance for longevity.
Dustin Diamond
#68. Thank you for reminding Canada that I'm a disappointment to them. I like hockey, I love it, but I'm not an avid hockey - let's face it, true Canadian - fan. I've always been more into snowboarding and skateboarding and sort of the alternative sports, I'm not crazy about hockey - but love it!
Dustin Milligan
#69. You're in a fight and have to dig down ... I find peace in that and enjoy it.
Dustin Poirier
#70. I love the smell of skunks. Driving down a back road and you smell a skunk that's sprayed or been hit. I love that. It reminds me of home.
Dustin Lynch
#71. I definitely love beaches. I love to surf. I love to fish, and I'm always in need of a suntan.
Dustin Lynch
#72. When I'm not working, I weight train three times a week and swim and surf as much as I can - in the summer, you usually find me in the water.
Dustin Clare
#73. There's a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that many men are having allergic reactions to latex condoms. They say they cause severe swelling. So what's the problem?
Dustin Hoffman
#74. Acting didn't solve much! If it did, I would have ended up much less crazy than I am today, but I'm not. At least for me, acting is a relief - a relief to be able to admit certain things about myself and disguise in my work, in my characters.
Dustin Hoffman
#75. Mindfulness has helped me succeed in almost every dimension of my life. By stopping regularly to look inward and become aware of my mental state, I stay connected to the source of my actions and thoughts and can guide them with considerably more intention.
Dustin Moskovitz
#76. Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us.
Dustin Hoffman
#77. 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?
Dustin Hoffman
#79. Life stinks, but that doesn't mean you don't enjoy it.
Dustin Hoffman
#80. But I would reinvent myself if I could. As a sexy leading man! We all would like that, but I don't know how to.
Dustin Hoffman
#81. Just because somebody swings one way and I swing another way doesn't mean he's better than me or I'm better than him ... Does my swing get hits? Yes.
Dustin Pedroia
#82. The sword was a very elegant weapon in the days of the samurai. You had honor and chivalry much like the knights, and yet it was a gruesome and horrific weapon.
Dustin Diamond
#83. Men are called to serve their brides by loving their wives as Christ loves His church and gave Himself up for her. The wives are to respect and submit to their husband as unto the Lord. In
Dustin Heiner
#85. 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.
Dustin Hoffman
#86. To have a successful marriage, a man must, on a fundamental level be scared shitless of his wife.
Dustin Hoffman
#87. It's true what they say about failure. You don't learn from success.
Dustin Hoffman
#88. Don't you think it's funny that the presidents are still expected to build libraries when hardly anyone reads books? I read a study that said less than ten percent of adults read a book in the past year.
Dustin Lawson
#89. I'm not a big radio guy, I don't listen to whatever is the hip new thing.
Dustin Diamond
#90. New Zealand is a pretty no-nonsense place to work, like Australia. I mean it doesn't falter to anyone.
Dustin Clare
#91. I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable.
Dustin Clare
#92. Stand-up in general is the most raw form of entertainment. There is no pyrotechnics or back-up dancers, it's just live and die by your jokes, that's it.
Dustin Diamond
#93. I don' really care what people think. I don't really have to prove anything to anybody. I just have to prove stuff to my teammates.
Dustin Pedroia
#94. I'm such a fan of Deadwood. I love the characters in that. They're such wonderful characters. I'm a fan of The Wire. Those are all heavily character-based shows.
Dustin Clare
#95. I was told 'no' a lot when I first got to Nashville, but I'm pretty stubborn! That's one of my faults and qualities.
Dustin Lynch
#96. That's what we're all looking for, the place where the work leads us.
Dustin Hoffman
#97. This music isn't Top 40, we really stand out from anyone.
Dustin Diamond
#98. I'd love to cover an 'Incubus' song. I don't think anybody in a cowboy hat on a country stage has ever done that, and I'd love to be the first.
Dustin Lynch
#99. I had wanted to be a fish farmer, to be honest with you. I wanted to be an agriculturist. I wanted to have my own fish farm. I was also contemplating surfboard building.
Dustin Clare
#100. I just try to see the ball and hit it. If I get a hit, I get a hit. If I get out, I get out. There's no secret about it.
Dustin Pedroia
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