Dustin Hoffman movie quotes

“The thing about life is it gets weird. People are always talking ya about truth. Everybody always knows what the truth is, like it was toilet paper or somethin', and they got a supply in the closet. But what you learn, as you get older, is there ain't no truth. All there is is bullshit, pardon my vulgarity here. Layers of it. One layer of...” (continue)(continue reading)
Dustin Hoffman - Bernie LaPlante

“One of the main things about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. I was always obsessed with death, obsessed with things ending, my career being finished. Now I'm not so much. I couldn't understand why that was for a long time, and finally I realized it's because when you're a movie star you're already dead, you're embalmed.”
Dustin Hoffman

“- Shifu: If you only do what you can do, you'll never be better than what you are.
- Po: But I like who I am!
- Shifu: You don't even know who you are!”
Dustin Hoffman - Shifu
Jack Black - Po

“- Rozalin Focker: See that's Greg getting circumcised.
- Bernie Focker: We had the ceremony at my parents' house. There was a cold snap and the heat conked out. Tell it.
- Rozalin Focker: The heater conked out. No matter how hard he tried, the mohel couldn't coax Greggie's tiny little turtle from it's shell.
- Greg Focker: You know what? Let's...” (continue)(continue reading)

Barbra Streisand - Rozalin Focker
Dustin Hoffman - Bernie Focker
Ben Stiller - Greg Focker

“- Po: Master Shifu? Good time, bad time?
- Shifu: Time is an allusion, there is only the now.
- Po: So now is a... good time?
- Shifu: Oh!”
Jack Black - Po
Dustin Hoffman - Shifu

“- Raymond Babbitt: 246 total.
- Charlie Babbitt: How many?
- Sally Dibbs: 250.
- Charlie Babbitt: Pretty close.
- Sally Dibbs: There's four left in the box.”

Dustin Hoffman - Raymond Babbitt
Tom Cruise - Charlie Babbitt
Bonnie Hunt - Sally Dibbs

“We are fugitives of the law. Idiocy is our only option.”
Dustin Hoffman - Sam Daniels

“Unlikely adventures require unlikely tools.”
Dustin Hoffman - Mr. Edward Magorium

“I was a better man with you, as a woman... than I ever was with a woman, as a man. You know what I mean? I just gotta learn to do it without the dress. At this point, there might be an advantage to my wearing pants. The hard part's over, you know? We were already... good friends.”

Dustin Hoffman - Michael Dorsey

“We must face tomorrow, whatever it may hold, with determination, joy and bravery”
Dustin Hoffman - Mr. Edward Magorium

“- Dr. Harry Adams: Are you a religious man, Norman?
- Dr. Norman Goodman: Atheist, but I'm flexible.”
Samuel L. Jackson - Dr. Harry Adams
Dustin Hoffman - Dr. Norman Goodman

“Telling the truth can be dangerous business. Honest and popular don't go hand in hand. If you admit that you play the accordion no one will hire you in a rock 'n' roll band. But we can sing out hearts out. And if we're lucky, then no neighbors complain. Because life is the way we audition for God. Let us pray that we all get the job.”

Dustin Hoffman - Chuck Clarke
Warren Beatty - Lyle Rogers

“I know what y'all really want is some gross, caricature of a woman to prove some idiotic point that power makes a woman masculine, or masculine women are ugly.”
Dustin Hoffman - Dorothy Michaels

“Sometimes style can get you killed.”

Dustin Hoffman - King

“Look at that! That is a complete fucking fraud, and it looks a hundred percent real. It's the best work I've ever done in my life, because it's so honest.”

Dustin Hoffman - Stanley Motss

“- Raymond Babbitt: Definitely have to dance on my date. Have to learn how to dance. Definitely. Now.
- Charlie Babbitt: Ray, you're not gonna have to dance, but I will teach you sometime.
- Raymond Babbitt: Definitely have to dance with Iris.
- Charlie Babbitt: Sorry I even brought this up. You're right, Ray, you got a date with the only famous...” (continue)(continue reading)
Dustin Hoffman - Raymond Babbitt
Tom Cruise - Charlie Babbitt

“- Stanley Motss: He's fine as long as he gets his medications...
- Winifred Ames: And if he doesn't get his medications?
- Stanley Motss: He's not fine.”

Dustin Hoffman - Stanley Motss
Anne Heche - Winifred Ames

“- John Van Horne: I'm just an untalented old has-been.
- Dorothy Michaels: Were you ever famous?
- John Van Horne: No.
- Dorothy Michaels: Then how can you be a has-been?”
George Gaynes - John Van Horn
Dustin Hoffman - Dorothy Michaels

“- Shifu: You must take the next step on your journey, from warrior to teacher.
- Po: But I'm no good at it!
- Shifu: You're terrible at it!”
Dustin Hoffman - Shifu
Jack Black - Po

“- Bernie Focker: Why can't you support my dreams the way I've always supported yours? When you wanted to try new sex positions for your research, I was your guinea pig!
- Roz Focker: You volunteered!
- Bernie Focker: I pulled my hamstring doing a reverse cowgirl!
- Roz Focker: That's because you did it backwards.”
Dustin Hoffman - Bernie Focker
Barbra Streisand - Roz Focker

“- Ted Kramer: What's up? Tell me. What? What's the matter?
- Joanna Kramer: I woke up this morning, kept thinking about Billy and I was thinking about him waking up in his room with his little clouds all around that I painted and I thought I should have painted clouds downtown because then he would think that he was waking up at home. I came...” (continue)(continue reading)
Dustin Hoffman - Ted Kramer
Meryl Streep - Joanna Kramer

“- Po: Teaching? There's no way I'm ever gonna be like you!
- Shifu: I'm not trying to turn you into me; I'm trying to turn you into you.”

Jack Black - Po
Dustin Hoffman - Shifu

“- Jean-Baptiste Grenouille: Amor and Psyche by Pelissier?
- Giuseppe Baldini: What ever gave you the absurd idea I would use someone else's perfume?
- Jean-Baptiste Grenouille: It's all over you.”
Ben Whishaw - Jean-Baptiste Grenouille
Dustin Hoffman - Giuseppe Baldini

“Well, maybe to you. It's like this: Human race, horse race. There was even a Chicken Run, but there's never been a goat race. Ever, ever, ever.”
Dustin Hoffman - Tucker

“- Chuck Clarke: What do you do?
- Jim Harrison: I'm with the CIA.
- Chuck Clarke: Interesting work?”
Dustin Hoffman - Chuck Clarke
Charles Grodin - Jim Harrison