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I'm a huge fan of Dustin Hoffman. -- Sharlto Copley
I was such a big Dustin Hoffman fan when I was young. -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
I admire Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman for their sheer dedication to their craft. -- Lavrenti Lopes
My biggest fantasy love affair was with Dustin Hoffman. It's so bizarre. Also Anthony Hopkins. -- Debra Messing
It's so funny to get a call from Dustin Hoffman because he has that great voice. -- Andie MacDowell
There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson. -- John Schlesinger
I'd say people that really inspired me at first were like, Dustin Hoffman, Jim Carrey... serious Jim Carrey though. -- Logan Lerman
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There are maybe 100 actors I look up to, but my first two favourite actors were Dustin Hoffman and Jack Nicholson. -- Paul Dano
Barbra Streisand has accomplished so much, and Dustin Hoffman as well. They are down to earth and approachable. I admire that. -- Kevin Hart
I've been working since I was 18. People say something every time I cut my hair. They wouldn't say this to Dustin Hoffman. -- Carole Bouquet
For a couple of years at the end of the 1970s, Dustin Hoffman was a fixture in our family. My father was his lawyer and friend. -- John Burnham Schwartz
The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro, like Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood who in their 70s or 80s can still act. -- Jackie Chan
I started writing and acting in these little plays and then I was discovered by Dustin Hoffman. He got me my first audition for a film he was in, called 'I Heart Huckabees.' -- Jonah Hill
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
Paul McCartney and The Beatles in general are my idols. And I love Sting. I got to meet Sting. That was really cool. Dustin Hoffman is my favorite actor. Also, I think of Magic Johnson as an idol. -- Nat Wolff
My heroes are Bill Murray and Dustin Hoffman. Those are the two actors that both do comedies and dramas, seamlessly. Also John C. Reilly and Philip Seymour Hoffman. They're all just great actors, neither comedic nor dramatic. They're just great actors. -- Jonah Hill
I keep trying to explain to people that the archetype of intelligence is not Dustin Hoffman in 'The Rain Man;' it is a human being, period. It is squishy things that explode in a vacuum, leaving footprints on their moon. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
I did a film which was considered an independent movie with Dustin Hoffman and Andy Garcia called Confidence, and that's the type of film I was willing to take a chance on that because of the caliber of people involved with the film. -- Morris Chestnut
I got to work with Dustin Hoffman on a film called 'Billy Bathgate.' I got to work with Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn and Bob Zemeckis on 'Death Becomes Her.' There are still a few actors out there that I would like to work with. -- Bruce Willis
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 him. Same with Gene Hackman. -- Shia LaBeouf
There's people who live life authentically and there's people who live a life of fabrication. And it begins with the question of how you're gonna do your time. And these are observations I made about Folsom when I was there with Dustin Hoffman when he was directing 'Straight Time.' -- Michael Mann
My interest in acting came from seeing Broadway shows on summer trips to New York as a child. It was the original production of 'A Chorus Line' in an easy tie with the first 10 -15 minutes of Dustin Hoffman in 'Tootsie' that hooked me on the romantic idea that the impossible, difficult life of a struggling actor was for me. -- John Lloyd Young
Everything we do on 'Luck' is absolutely no different than if we'd had been doing it in a feature film. There's no short cuts. The specificity of what every single line might mean. Everything Dustin Hoffman does. Kevin Dunn is as authentic in the last scene of the last episode as he is in the first scene of the first episode. -- Michael Mann
My nursery school did a production of 'The Three Little Pigs.' I played the third pig. When the wolf knocked on my door, I refused to get up and answer it because, to me, he was knocking the wrong way. I just lay there, snoring away on stage, fully immersed in my character. My dad turned to my mom and said: 'Dustin Hoffman.' -- Zooey Deschanel
I think Dustin Hoffman's career I would love to emulate just because it's so diversified. -- Michael Angarano
The varying physical characteristics of the actors may also necessitate changes. Sean Connery is six feet four. Dustin Hoffman isn't. -- Sidney Lumet
People compared Garden State to the Graduate, but when was the last time you saw Dustin Hoffman doing what I do? -- Zach Braff
I feel like I went from being a boy to being a man, in some respects, through the help of Dustin Hoffman. -- Patrick J. Adams
Ridiculously - fortunately - my first job was with Dustin Hoffman. I had a little part in this movie called Tootsie. And he taught me how to watch dailies. That it was very important. -- Geena Davis
The emotional elevation of the film is due in no small measure to the extraordinarily engaging performances of Anne Bancroft as the wife-mother-mistress, Dustin Hoffman as the lumbering Lancelot, and Katherine Ross as his fair Elaine. -- Andrew Sarris
I keep trying to explain to people that the archetype of intelligence is not Dustin Hoffman in 'The Rain Man;' it is a human being, period. It is squishy things that explode in a vacuum, leaving footprints on their moon." -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
Dustin Hoffman said this one time, that if he hadn't made it as a film star, he would still be happy as a character actor because he was a character actor because of his face from day one, so he would always work in the theater. -- Denis Leary

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