Top 100 Dustin Quotes
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. I've been blessed to have done different roles, but I don't think people see me as funny.
Dustin Diamond
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower.
Dustin Diamond
#12. 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
#13. A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
Dustin Hoffman
#14. Who she walks with, will tell you if she's worth it.
Dustin Cruz
#15. I want to thank my parents for not practicing birth control.
Dustin Hoffman
#16. 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
#17. Focus on performance. Outcome is going to happen. No stress about that. Focus on performance.
Dustin Poirier
#18. I'm left handed, but my dad taught me to play guitar right-handed.
Dustin Diamond
#19. Sometimes I have to be pulled down to reality. I want everything to happen all at once.
Dustin Yellin
#20. 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
#22. If I have to win one game, I'd have a hard time taking anybody over Dustin Pedroia as my second baseman.
Mariano Rivera
#23. The only reason you should be an entrepreneur is because that's the only way the idea will come into the world.
Dustin Moskovitz
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. You're in a fight and have to dig down ... I find peace in that and enjoy it.
Dustin Poirier
#27. 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
#28. I definitely love beaches. I love to surf. I love to fish, and I'm always in need of a suntan.
Dustin Lynch
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us.
Dustin Hoffman
#34. 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
#36. Life stinks, but that doesn't mean you don't enjoy it.
Dustin Hoffman
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson.
John Schlesinger
#44. 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
#45. To have a successful marriage, a man must, on a fundamental level be scared shitless of his wife.
Dustin Hoffman
#46. It's true what they say about failure. You don't learn from success.
Dustin Hoffman
#47. Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.
Ben Stiller
#48. 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
#49. I'm not a big radio guy, I don't listen to whatever is the hip new thing.
Dustin Diamond
#50. 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
#51. New Zealand is a pretty no-nonsense place to work, like Australia. I mean it doesn't falter to anyone.
Dustin Clare
#52. I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable.
Dustin Clare
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. That's what we're all looking for, the place where the work leads us.
Dustin Hoffman
#58. This music isn't Top 40, we really stand out from anyone.
Dustin Diamond
#59. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. I sign autographs and try to be as nice to people as possible, and I do pretty well with that. I understand the importance of it.
Dustin Johnson
#65. Fighting has opened the path to redemption for me,
Dustin Poirier
#66. It's like Canada is the little brother to the United States and one day they are going to show the world they're just as cool as their successful big brother.
Dustin Milligan
#67. These days, everyone is a writer, producer and movie star. You post something on the web, get enough hits, and suddenly you have TV show.
Dustin Diamond
#68. As I got older, I got more Victorian and morbid. I got into things that circled around death, like skulls or morgue photographs or handwritten diaries. They can be almost haunted with all this history, and you project onto it and then it gets onto you.
Dustin Yellin
#69. This is your life. Now go make it the one you've always wanted.
Dustin Hoffman
#70. My brain never turns off of songwriting. Every conversation, everything I see, I'm just kind of like a sponge and I soak it up.
Dustin Lynch
#72. There is something unnatural about marriage. These two people are not going to be the same people in a few years. The trick is to live your own life while sharing the same space.
Dustin Hoffman
#73. The first time I looked at Yammer, I thought I was on Facebook. Work is not a social network, with serendipitous communications and photo collections. Work is about managing tasks and responding to things quickly.
Dustin Moskovitz
#74. 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
#75. Facebook was founded on February 4, 2004. On February 5, we were feeling pretty confident, even from observing the first few hours of usage. Students used it like crazy. They'd sign up then spend the next 3-4 hours on it. Then we'd go to lecture hall and see it on every computer screen there.
Dustin Moskovitz
#76. The White Ribbon Foundation is organization I support. They're bringing awareness of violence against women and I think it's important in our society.
Dustin Clare
#77. We all believe what we read. I read how Tom Cruise and I were two big egos holding up shooting. I know that isn't true - but if I wasn't making a movie with him and I just picked up the paper, I'd believe it. That's interesting, isn't it?
Dustin Hoffman
#78. I don't know who's worse with little boys, Mario or Michael Jackson.
Dustin Diamond
#79. I love all types of music. I love top 40 dance pop, hip-hop, I don't even know what they call it now. I'm a huge fan of all that.
Dustin Lynch
#80. 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
#81. I'm singing and dancing and playing guitar. I really enjoy pushing myself into different aspects. I'm not going to do this for the rest of my life, but I want to keep challenging myself. And if I'm fearful of something I definitely want to step into it and see how good or bad I am at it.
Dustin Clare
#83. So, they had this 40-odd year friendship with each other and with Mr Harwood. So, when I came on it Albert, Tom and Maggie were in the cast. But then Albert wasn't up for it, so he had to withdraw.
Dustin Hoffman
#84. There's nothing that I love more than predawn. I'm with the dogs, I make coffee, and there's no one up.
Dustin Hoffman
#85. Being on mission is not always about going to a specific place - it's about being intentional where you are. That's investment. And investment is always intentional. It's a lifestyle choice.
Dustin Willis
#86. There are a lot of girls that will try to hook up with you, then try to have your kid because they figure they're going to get all this money from you.
Dustin Diamond
#87. 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.
Dustin Hoffman
#88. You can go out and get anything you want if you work hard enough for it and believe in yourself.
Dustin Poirier
#89. Doing all the rig work and the stunt work has actually been wonderful. It's a whole new skill set that I've learned that I'll get to take onto my next jobs. We get to do that all the time, the fighting and the learning new moves. It's quite exciting.
Dustin Clare
#90. I can't apply $3 billion in capital to the tech industry. It wouldn't work. But in infrastructure, education, I can make a real difference. I can change someone's life, for the better, permanently. If I can improve a kid's education, I can increase their salary later on and for decades.
Dustin Moskovitz
#91. There's a lot of complacency in philanthropy. People figure organizations are trying to do good, and that's enough, even if the results aren't there. But that's wasteful and inefficient. It crowds out better programs.
Dustin Moskovitz
#92. I feel cheated never being able to know what it's like to get pregnant, carry a child and breast feed.
Dustin Hoffman
#93. God knows I've done enough crap in my life to grow a few flowers.
Dustin Hoffman
#94. The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk.
Dustin Hoffman
#95. Graphic novel genre become really quite popular. It's really a big screen film genre that they have successfully moved into the small screen.
Dustin Clare
#96. 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
#97. I like to mimic my grandkids. I'm trying to understand the intensity of fixation on a leaf. Kids don't need anything else in their life.
Dustin Hoffman
#98. There's always a project around, but you have to pick and choose.
Dustin Clare
#99. I've gotten to go to the Opry a couple of times and stand backstage and watch. But I made it a point not to take a tour or stand in the circle until music took me there. I told myself that was one place I'd never go unless music took me there.
Dustin Lynch
#100. 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
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