In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.
Dustin HoffmanIt'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 HoffmanI decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits.
Dustin HoffmanI walked out of the theater and started crying. My wife asked me, 'Why are you crying?' I said, 'Because I can't do that.' I didn't know how he did it. I've never seen anything like that. It's like this feat, this Rodin sculpture to me. It's like hearing an opera singer and the tears go down your face because it's not human what they're doing. It's like sounds of heaven.
Dustin Hoffman