Dustin Hoffman movie quotes

- Franny: What are you?
- Stripes: I don't know.
- Tucker: We can rule out "genius".
Whoopi Goldberg - Franny
Frankie Muniz - Stripes
Dustin Hoffman - Tucker

“- Doctor: Ray, do you want to stay and live with Charlie?
- Raymond Babbitt: Yeah.
- Doctor: Or do you want to go back to Walbrook?
- Raymond Babbitt: Yeah.
- Doctor: Which is it? Go back to Walbrook or stay with Charlie Babbitt?
- Raymond Babbitt: Go back to Walbrook, stay with Charlie Babbitt.”
Barry Levinson - Doctor
Dustin Hoffman - Raymond Babbitt

“No one wants to die but unfortunately we do. You will die someday, sometime. Heart failure at the bank. Choke on a mint. Some long, drawn-out disease you contracted on vacation. Even if you avoid this death, another will find you and I guarantee that it won't be poetic or meaningful.”

Dustin Hoffman - Professor Jules Hilbert

“Is this not the most handsome young man you've ever seen in your life? Used to call him a young Jewish Marlon Brando.”
Dustin Hoffman - Bernie Focker

“- Woman from Boston: Why don't you have another drink, honey. Stop being so damn self-centered?
- William 'Willy' Loman: I'm so lonely.
- Woman from Boston: You know you ruined me, Willy? From now on, whenever you come to the office, I'm gonna see you go right through to the buyers. No waiting at my desk anymore, Willy. You ruined me!
- William...” (continue)(continue reading)
Kathryn Rossetter - Woman from Boston
Dustin Hoffman - William 'Willy' Loman

“The world is lies. There is no friendship.”
Dustin Hoffman - Teach

“Talent means next to nothing, while experience acquired in humility and hard work means everything.”
Dustin Hoffman - Giuseppe Baldini

“- Sandy: Wish me luck.
- Michael Dorsey: Fuck you.
- Sandy: Thanks.”
Teri Garr - Sandy
Dustin Hoffman - Michael Dorsey

“First thing on the list of what Americans say they hate: work; second, traffic; third, missing socks.”
Dustin Hoffman - Professor Jules Hilbert

“I must admit you have a big imagination. But maybe not big enough. Death is much more... simple. After a few months it gets more interesting. Then after a year it finally becomes... romantic.”

Dustin Hoffman - The Conscience

“- Susanna: How was that?
- Raymond Babbitt: Wet.”

Valeria Golino - Susanna
Dustin Hoffman - Raymond Babbitt

“- Conrad Brean: If Kissinger can win the Peace Prize, I wouldn't be surprised to wake up and find out I'd won the Preakness.
- Stanley Motss: Yes but, our guy did bring peace.
- Conrad Brean: But there wasn't a war.
- Stanley Motss: All the greater accomplishment.”
Robert De Niro - Conrad Brean
Dustin Hoffman - Stanley Motss

“- Harold Crick: Ten seconds ago you said you wouldn't help me.
- Professor Jules Hilbert: It's been a very revealing ten seconds, Harold.”
Will Ferrell - Harold Crick
Dustin Hoffman - Professor Jules Hilbert

“- Dr. Norman Goodman: I would be happy if Jerry had no emotions whatsoever. Because the thing of it is once you go down that road... here's Jerry, an emotional being cooped up for 300 years with no one to talk to... none of the socialization, the emotional growth that comes from contact with other emotional beings...
- Dr. Harry Adams: So...?
-...” (continue)(continue reading)

Dustin Hoffman - Dr. Norman Goodman
Samuel L. Jackson - Dr. Harry Adams

“- Susanna: You use me, you use Raymond, you use everybody.
- Charlie Babbitt: Using Raymond? Hey Raymond, am I using you? Am I using you Raymond?
- Raymond Babbitt: Yeah.
- Charlie Babbitt: Shut up! He is answering a question from a half hour ago!”
Valeria Golino - Susanna
Tom Cruise - Charlie Babbitt
Dustin Hoffman - Raymond Babbitt

“- George Fields: I know this is going to disgust you, Michael, but a lot of people are in this business to make money.
- Michael Dorsey: You make it out like I'm some flake, George. I am in this business to make money, too.”

Sydney Pollack - George Fields
Dustin Hoffman - Michael Dorsey

“- Jack Byrnes: We use the Ferber method.
- Bernie Focker: We use the Focker method. We hugged and kissed that little boy like there was no tomorrow. We Fockerized him.”
Robert De Niro - Jack Byrnes
Dustin Hoffman - Bernie Focker

“- Ron: I'm sure you're a very good actress. It's just that you're not threatening enough.
- Dorothy Michaels: Not threatening enough? Listen, you take your hands off me or I'll knee your balls right through the roof of your mouth! Is that enough of a threat?
- Ron: It's a start.”
Dabney Coleman - Ron
Dustin Hoffman - Dorothy Michaels

“Who are you to even think that you can know the difference between good and evil?”
Dustin Hoffman - The Conscience

“Some plots are moved forward by external events and crises. Others are moved forward by the characters themselves. If I go through that door, the plot continues. The story of me through the door. If I stay here the plot can't move forward, the story ends.”
Dustin Hoffman - Professor Jules Hilbert

“- Sam Daniels: You know Salt, fear gets a bad rap. I don't want anybody in my outfit that doesn't get scared.
- Major Salt: Then I'm your man sir.”
Dustin Hoffman - Sam Daniels
Cuba Gooding Jr. - Major Salt

“You don't control your fate.”

Dustin Hoffman - Professor Jules Hilbert

“When was the last time you gave your wife breakfast in bed? When was the last time you gave her anything in bed?”
Dustin Hoffman - Bernie Focker

“- Charlie Babbitt: Did you fart, Ray? Did you fucking fart?
- Raymond Babbitt: Fart.
- Charlie Babbitt: [trying unsuccessfully to open the door] How can you stand that?
- Raymond Babbitt: I don't mind it.”

Tom Cruise - Charlie Babbitt
Dustin Hoffman - Raymond Babbitt

“I don't believe in hell. I believe in unemployment, but not hell.”
Dustin Hoffman - Michael Dorsey