[upon seeing Dustin Hoffman`s "method" acting technique of not sleeping and making a mess of himself to get into character while shooting Marathon Man (1976)] Dear boy, it`s called acting.
Laurence Olivier
All the amazing people that I`ve worked with - Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman - have told me consistently: don`t compromise. Do your work, and if what you`re giving is not what they want, you have to be prepared to walk away.
Johnny Depp
I won`t consider myself a star until I`ve had more experience. I think the real stars are people like Streisand, Brando, Dustin Hoffman, Hepburn... Hepburn is my favorite. She epitomizes to me what a star should be.
Lynda Carter
[on working with Dustin Hoffman on "All the President`s Men"] One of the joys of the movie was working with Dustin; he has one of the most wonderful acting minds I`ve ever worked with.
Robert Redford
[When asked what a movie of his life would be called and who would play him] It would be called `The Dustin Hoffman Story`. When we were starting out, [Robert De Niro], me and Hoffman were always sort of mixed up. People mistook us for each other.
Al Pacino
[When asked what a movie of his life would be called and who would play him] It would be called `The Dustin Hoffman Story`. When we were starting out, [Robert De Niro], me and Hoffman were always sort of mixed up. People mistook us for each other.
Al Pacino
People treat me with a bit too much reverence. Look at Dustin Hoffman. I always envy the way he can speak and be smart and funny and so on. I just can`t do that.
Robert De Niro
[on actors taking themselves too seriously] The truth is . . . myself, De Niro [Robert De Niro], Pacino [Al Pacino], Hoffman [Dustin Hoffman], we were arrogant, pompous asses.
James Caan
[on actors taking themselves too seriously] The truth is . . . myself, De Niro [Robert De Niro], Pacino [Al Pacino], Hoffman [Dustin Hoffman], we were arrogant, pompous asses.
James Caan
[Dustin Hoffman on he and Hackman as young stage actors and roommates in New York] Psychologically, Gene/myself, we did not think about making it in the terms that people think about. We fully expected to be failures for our entire life. Meaning that we w...
Gene Hackman
It`s difficult, it`s a bit like acting in a silent movie. That`s what Dustin Hoffman said to me, anyway. We did the scenes with him in the first two weeks, and as he was leaving he said `well now you`re making a silent film Ben, good luck!`. On making Per...
Ben Whishaw
Working with someone like Dustin Hoffman is a huge honor and, after you kind of get through that, you`re frightened about working with a screen legend, and I was just in awe.
Rachel Weisz
[on refusing the role of Benjamin Braddock in The Graduate (1967), the role that made Dustin Hoffman a star seven years before Redford obtained super-star status himself] I never did look like a 21-year-old just out of college who`d never been laid.
Robert Redford
Yes, but you`d be surprised how many people didn`t know who Philip Seymour Hoffman was. Only if you said, the fat guy in Boogie Nights" would people know who you were talking about because they didn`t know his name then."
Joel Schumacher
[on Dustin Hoffman] I believe that he has talent. He ought to get away from this rather nervous character that he`s played since "Midnight Cowboy." Then we`d really be able to see that he`s a complete actor.
Marlon Brando
I think the fact that one`s hair disappeared early made it easier. I never had a "transition problem". I`ve always played older. I played Harrison Ford`s father and Dustin Hoffman`s father. And this year, I`m going to be 65. I`m hardly going to get into a...
Sean Connery
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 hi...
Shia LaBeouf
[on Dustin Hoffman] He`s energized and the greatest combination of the generous and the selfish that ever lived. He wants to be the greatest actor who ever was.
Meryl Streep
There was a call made (by the umpires) to go over what happened, to make sure there was no confusion. There`s nothing to it. Hoffman got the best of me.
Anthony DeCurtis
Restoration I did because I really loved e novel and I like Michael Hoffman, who directed it, but it wasn`t a really challenging part for me. I`m not critical of the film: I just don`t think I gave a very interesting performance.
David Thewlis
I`d love to have that story like Dustin Hoffman or John Malkovich, ... Who was it that followed some woman into an acting class and then they suddenly thought, `Oh this is cool.` and that`s how they became an actor. I`d love to have a story like that, but...
Peter Dinklage
How could you justify giving Holland twice the amount of money that you gave Belgium? Well, finally, I put it up to them. They said that they couldn`t do it; it would destroy them. I said they had to do it. And I finally got support from Hoffman on it.
Andrew Kaplan
Hoffman is right. It`s much harder to get away with dirty little secrets like Ward Churchill - who apparently gamed the CU system for years - in the era of the blogosphere, when facts (not rumors) can be instantly reported. If I had simply published rumor...
Charles Johnson
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
I`d love to have that story like Dustin Hoffman or John Malkovich, ... Who was it that followed some woman into an acting class and then they suddenly thought, `Oh this is cool.` and that`s how they became an actor. I`d love to have a story like that, but...
Peter Dinklage
[upon seeing Dustin Hoffman`s "method" acting technique of not sleeping and making a mess of himself to get into character while shooting Marathon Man (1976)] Dear boy, it`s called acting.
Laurence Olivier
