This is your life. Now go make it the one you’ve always wanted. — Dustin Hoffman

Life stinks, but that doesn’t mean you don’t enjoy it. — Dustin Hoffman

One of the things you can do as an actor, is compensate for the things you can’t do in life. — Dustin Hoffman

You spend so much of your life basing yourself on what you think other people think of you. Then you realise that maybe one of the purposes of life is not to care. — Dustin Hoffman

Life is an occasion…rise to it. — Dustin Hoffman

The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk. — Dustin Hoffman

There’s too many interesting women I have…not had the experience to know in this life because I have been brainwashed. — Dustin Hoffman

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

God knows I’ve done enough crap in my life to grow a few flowers. — Dustin Hoffman

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

Seconds, well used, is a lifetime. — Dustin Hoffman

I decided a long time ago but sometimes it takes you 40 years to get around to doing something–and that’s the truthful answer. — Dustin Hoffman

A ‘take’ is an opportunity to fail … and we think that we have to get it right all the time. — Dustin Hoffman

I don’t thInk that has anythIng to do wIth whether you are good or not; It’s just about whether your fIlms make money or not. — Dustin Hoffman

Quartet, i don’t think that has anything to do with whether you are good or not; it’s just about whether your films make money or not. — Dustin Hoffman

I think right now television is the best that it’s ever been, and I think that it’s the worst that film has ever been. — Dustin Hoffman

Euthanasia is legal in Hollywood. They just kill the film if it doesn’t succeed immediately. — Dustin Hoffman

And that’s another reason to make this movie: We can put plays on film now, at a relatively small cost, and they will reach an audience they would never have reached otherwise. — Dustin Hoffman

Now, I’m simply working with people I want to work with. I just want to have good working experiences and let the dice fall where they may. — Dustin Hoffman

I love working, I’d be dead if I hadn’t found myself as an actor I didn’t have to be successful. — Dustin Hoffman

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

I stopped workIng a few years ago because I just lost a spark that I’d had before. I thought I’d just try wrItIng, and maybe start dIrectIng, but I dId It very quIetly. — Dustin Hoffman

We’re all a little nit autistic. — Dustin Hoffman

If you can get out there and say I’m going to…I’m willing to fail at what I feel is right, that’s it. — Dustin Hoffman

That’s what we’re all looking for, the place where the work leads us. — Dustin Hoffman

I think there’s always going to be some kind of bigotry or some kind of racism. There has to be, because people can’t feel that they have any hero qualities unless there’s someone beneath them. — Dustin Hoffman

Next to that kid, we all look like onions. — Dustin Hoffman

I feel cheated never being able to know what it’s like to get pregnant, carry a child and breast feed. — Dustin Hoffman

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