Dustin Quotes

Once a few Facebook employees put together a promising idea and start a company, that's very exciting to people. I happen to think being a Facebook employee is really correlated with good ideas. ~ Dustin Moskovitz

If you're waiting for the job, you're dead. ~ Dustin Hoffman

If what I write is perfect, I'd rob myself the thrill of improvement. ~ Dustin Adrian Rhodes

I would hole up in my bedroom growing up and teach myself guitar. ~ Dustin Lynch

Blame is for God and small children. ~ Dustin Hoffman

I want to thank my parents for not practicing birth control. ~ Dustin Hoffman

When we founded Facebook, we put a lot of hours into it and worked hard every day. 'The Social Network' painted this picture that we were partying all the time, when really we only attended 2 or 3 parties during Facebook's first year. ~ Dustin Moskovitz

People compared Garden State to the Graduate, but when was the last time you saw Dustin Hoffman doing what I do? ~ Zach Braff

I'm sixty-eight, I cry every chance I can. ~ Dustin Hoffman

It isn't a big jump in the imagination to see yourself living alone like Mr Hoppy. ~ Dustin Hoffman

When I play videogames I'm trying to go deep every pitch. I'm definitely not going to try to do that in real life. In the (video)game I'm trying to leave the yard. ~ Dustin Pedroia

So, most of it was done over the phone. But one of the first things I did as a director, because it's one of the first things you should do, even though most don't, is to ask good actors who they think is right for the part. They know better than anybody. But without missing a beat Maggie said Pauline Collins. I didn't know Pauline because I hadn't seen Shirley Valentine, but then I saw this thing that she did with Woody Allen [You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger], in which she was wonderful as a psychic, and I said to her on the phone: "The dialogue seemed improvised." ~ Dustin Hoffman

There are a lot of girls that will try to hook up with you, then try to have your kid because they figure they're going to get all this money from you. ~ Dustin Diamond

If writing doesn't come from the heart, the time spent was a waste ~ Dustin Adrian Rhodes

Well, 45-odd years of doing it, so we all pile up the things we like about directors and the things we don't like about directors. And sometimes they're very similar. ~ Dustin Hoffman

In terms of the stars, the only ones I cast were Billy Connolly and Pauline Collins. I was in Los Angeles working and a lot of this took place on the telephone. I'd met Maggie [Smith] once and I'd come back-stage, which I'm usually loathe to do because as an actor you don't want people coming back because you want to get home [laughs]. ~ 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

For most people, their wealth accrues slowly, and at any given point they say, 'Okay, I should kick up my standard of living because now I've earned slightly more wealth.' I went from the dorm room to having a billion dollars. ~ Dustin Moskovitz

We all were there for the readings, the screen tests, and we knew. We knew Dustin was the guy right away. ~ Buck Henry

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

Look at the studio filled with glamorous merchandise. Fabulous and exciting bonus prizes. Thousands of dollars in cash. Over $150,000 just waiting to be won as we present our big bonanza of cash on Wheel Of Fortune. ~ Dustin Hoffman

The only reason you should be an entrepreneur is because that's the only way the idea will come into the world. ~ Dustin Moskovitz

Doing all the rig work and the stunt work has actually been wonderful. It's a whole new skill set that I've learned that I'll get to take onto my next jobs. We get to do that all the time, the fighting and the learning new moves. It's quite exciting. ~ Dustin Clare

I put the blinders on and just work as hard as I can, and hopefully I'll just continue to be a better player. ~ Dustin Pedroia

The trumpet player, Ronnie Hughes, has still got his chops today but for some strange reason the culture doesn't call him because he's 83-years-old. And these people are in their 70s and 80s and 90s and came with such verve every day and would still be shooting these 10 and 12 hour days. So, that in itself made this an extraordinarily special occasion for all of us. It wasn't a job for the crew after a few days, it took on another tone. ~ Dustin Hoffman

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

I am on a curiosity voyage, and I need my paddles to travel. These books… these books are my paddles. ~ Dustin Henderson

We don't know what we're writing until it just comes out. We don't sit around crunching numbers. ~ Dustin Diamond

As I got older, I got more Victorian and morbid. I got into things that circled around death, like skulls or morgue photographs or handwritten diaries. They can be almost haunted with all this history, and you project onto it and then it gets onto you. ~ Dustin Yellin

I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower. ~ Dustin Diamond

The thing about Canadian women is that they seem less likely to bring up that they're Canadian. You here less about Canadian actresses than actors, I don't know why. ~ Dustin Milligan

I knew that we had an obligation and that was to keep an energy in it and try to keep the audience interested. In fact, I asked some of the actors to take a look at His Girl Friday, a Howard Hawks film with Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant, because they talk over each other and there's a great energy. ~ Dustin Hoffman

The truth is, I've made about 30 movies in 30 years, and I've been criticized for 30 years for not making more movies. ~ Dustin Hoffman

Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me ... aren't you? ~ Dustin Hoffman

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 could never even entertain the notion that it's an option, to not be an artist. ~ Dustin Yellin

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

Five thousand miles away and I can still feel your turbulence on my skin, Dustin; your grit stuck in the chambers of my heart ... and all the silence that has followed it.
Please write me back. ~ Brandon Shire

These days, everyone is a writer, producer and movie star. You post something on the web, get enough hits, and suddenly you have TV show. ~ Dustin Diamond

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

I admire Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman for their sheer dedication to their craft. ~ Lavrenti Lopes

I knew I finally made it as a performer when I began hearing rumors that I was gay. ~ Dustin Hoffman

Well first of all, it's hard to shoot a movie and break for a long time and then come back and do, in a sense, one of the biggest scenes that each character had. ~ Dustin Hoffman

Being the new guy's always great because you get to go in fresh with your own choices and you get to bring new life and breath and a new energy into something that's already established. ~ Dustin Clare

I'm a huge fan of Dustin Hoffman. ~ Sharlto Copley

Every storm has a brilliance, Dustin; has beauty when you look at it from a distance. It blurs all those incessant imperfections we seek to hollow out with each of our hopes. But when you step into its still center, when you see it's fury and its power, you also see its beauty; its grace. ~ Brandon Shire

I hit the ball really well ... had a lot of good looks at birdie all day, it's firm but you could control your golf ball, for sure. Today I controlled my ball very well. The confidence is definitely there. I feel really good about where I'm at and going into tomorrow. ~ Dustin Johnson

I was such a big Dustin Hoffman fan when I was young. ~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Don't miss a chance at happiness because of your past misery. ~ Dustin Cruz

When the Creator touches the Creation, the Creation becomes creative. ~ Dustin Hedrick

I mean, I don't think I'm alone when I look at the homeless person or the bum or the psychotic or the drunk or the drug addict or the criminal and see their baby pictures in my mind's eye. You don't think they were cute like every other baby? ~ Dustin Hoffman

I'd love to cover an 'Incubus' song. I don't think anybody in a cowboy hat on a country stage has ever done that, and I'd love to be the first. ~ Dustin Lynch

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

There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom. ~ Dustin Hoffman

I wanted to find my limitations so I decided to do Shylock. And if I fail? I've never been afraid of that. I have other fears - doing bad work knowingly is the worst fear. ~ Dustin Hoffman

People like Johnny Depp are an exception. He is the current model of what an actor should be. His body of work speaks volumes. He was so under-rated for so long, but he will have longevity - and it is such a gratifying thrill to see he is finally getting the recognition he deserves. ~ Dustin Hoffman

I came in on this movie after there had been a director and I came in after Tom Courtenay had talked to Ron Harwood about making a movie. So, you know Tom and Albert Finney had been friends since the beginning of their career as they became stars around the same time - Tom always reminds me that Albert was first with Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and then Tom with The Long Distance Runner. ~ Dustin Hoffman

I don't really go back over my old shows, but I'll see them occasionally, mostly I want to go back and change things about the character as I look at them. ~ Dustin Diamond

My father had the bug. Ever since I can remember walking, he was waking me up at 5 in the morning to go to flea markets. As a kid, I couldn't really stand it, but as I grew up, I became that guy, and when I have kids, I am going to be doing the same thing. ~ Dustin Yellin

I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable. ~ Dustin Clare

In my room as a kid ... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win. ~ Dustin Hoffman

Peter Pan, prepare to meet thy doom. ~ Dustin Hoffman

Dustin Runnels came up to me and asked me if I made my peace with God today. I don't know if I ever had a fight with him. ~ Jerry Lawler

Being on mission is not always about going to a specific place - it's about being intentional where you are. That's investment. And investment is always intentional. It's a lifestyle choice. ~ Dustin Willis

Usually, those people don't even like actors and they can't wait until they get in the cutting room. They kind of break down in categories: directors who like to be surprised and some of them abhor being surprised. As far as directing, we all direct when we're acting in movies ... every single one of us. ~ Dustin Hoffman

I'm not a big radio guy, I don't listen to whatever is the hip new thing. ~ Dustin Diamond

I can't apply $3 billion in capital to the tech industry. It wouldn't work. But in infrastructure, education, I can make a real difference. I can change someone's life, for the better, permanently. If I can improve a kid's education, I can increase their salary later on and for decades. ~ Dustin Moskovitz

The White Ribbon Foundation is organization I support. They're bringing awareness of violence against women and I think it's important in our society. ~ Dustin Clare

I think I made some mistakes, in different areas, but it's great to be working in a show again now, many years down the track. I have worked in many other different shows in Australia and I've been able to learn from my mistakes. I'm lucky that I made those mistakes early on in Australia, and I definitely won't make them again in the States, but you've got to learn that stuff. ~ Dustin Clare

But I would reinvent myself if I could. As a sexy leading man! We all would like that, but I don't know how to. ~ Dustin Hoffman

I don't expect that we're going to become the biggest craze. If it happened, I'd be really shocked. I think people will dig it, but there will be a sea of people who just don't get it. ~ Dustin Diamond

Well, gentlemen, life's just one damn thing after another. ~ John Dustin Archbold

Somebody wrote a script around us, but Dustin Abraham came with the best one. ~ Method Man

If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy. ~ Dustin Hoffman

Though in this world there are phenomena that might justly be termed "strange," there are no phenomena that cannot -- given sufficient information -- be explained. This is not to suggest that for every effect there is a cause, of course. That is an assumption that we are not prepared to make, less it launch us ineluctably down the path of determinism. This is only to suggest, rather, that there is no "thing" that exists without some relation to at least one other "thing," and it is the matrix of a "thing's" relationship that determines its meaning in the larger context of the world. Even something strange can be explained by tracing its relational lines of flight, however casual or casual they may be. ~ Dustin Long

Warhol was definitely an inspiration when I was younger. I wouldn't quantify his sort of influence. I've been influenced by nature and science, and I've been influenced by people like Ernst and Rauschenberg, Cornell and Bosch and Bruegel, by writers like Haruki Murakami to Pablo Neruda to Artaud. ~ Dustin Yellin

One of the purposes of life, and selfishly what makes people happy, is building things that are impactful. ~ Dustin Moskovitz

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

Success is very much the intersection of luck and hard work. ~ Dustin Moskovitz

I realize now what a great job my wife Michelle did, not only in raising our children, Melissa, Amy, Dustin, and Jenna, but in taking care of me. ~ Robin Yount

You see people who are 19 or 20 years old and they don't even know who The Who is. It's like, where have you been? Justin Timberlake? C'mon. Where are the roots? ~ Dustin Diamond

New York is an incredible place to be an artist, because there are so many incredible people, and ... it's all about the people that you get exposed to. ~ Dustin Yellin

fine," Reed said, "be that way. Just stand there ~ Dustin Stevens

Stories? We all spend our lives telling them, about this, about that, about people ... But some? Some stories are so good we wish they'd never end. They're so gripping that we'll go without sleep just to see a little bit more. Some stories bring us laughter and sometimes they bring us tears ... but isn't that what a great story does? Makes you feel? Stories that are so powerful ... they really are with us forever. ~ Dustin Hoffman

There's nothing that I love more than predawn. I'm with the dogs, I make coffee, and there's no one up. ~ Dustin Hoffman

Photographs allow for connections to be made and for time to pause to appreciate all the world has to offer. ~ Dustin Thibideau

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

I haven't been able to pray with the same unquestioned simplicity of hope since Dustin passed. My childhood ended the day my brother died. The naive hope that a miracle would save him, that he would one day walk, that a disease was a blessing in my family – that hope died with him. ~ Darcy Leech

I really pay attention to the bass in the music I listen to, and that's what I tend to write toward. ~ Dustin Diamond

I've been waiting to have facial hair on camera for the longest time - I'm always playing teenagers, and I always have to shave. I'll let you in on a little secret: I have sensitive skin, and I'm a sensitive guy, so shaving is something that I don't look forward to. ~ Dustin Milligan

Anytime you're playing a major, the last four or five holes, it's not going to be easy. It's never a guarantee. It's never easy. ~ Dustin Johnson

I 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

To me, you couldn't write a character like J. Edgar Hoover and have it be believable. I mean, he was a crock pot of eccentricities. We couldn't even fit all his eccentricities into [ the same named] movie. ~ Dustin Lance Black

Dustin Wax says it well: No matter how organized you are, how together your system is, how careful you are about processing your inbox, making a task list, and working your calendar, if you don't stop every now and again to look at the "big picture," you're going to get overwhelmed. You end up simply responding to what's thrown at you, instead of proactively creating the conditions of your life.16 Find a time for your weekly review, add it to your calendar, and commit to doing it every week. I really can't over-emphasize the importance of this discipline. ~ Tim Challies

There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson. ~ John Schlesinger

The rig work can be rewarding to pull off, a really good rig in a set of wires where you're throwing yourself up walls and doing moves mid-air. That's just fun. ~ Dustin Clare

Poverty is not dated. Homeless people have looked the same since the thirteenth century. Go back to the times of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Look at photographs. It's amazing. The face on a homeless person is timeless. ~ Dustin Hoffman

There's a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that many men are having allergic reactions to latex condoms. They say they cause severe swelling. So what's the problem? ~ Dustin Hoffman

Godzilla, you see, is toppled, is depleted, is immobile and breathless, the non-conversative dictator and his polemical primeval tyranny dashed to social smithereens... for some his demise will evince agitation, adulation and appraisal, but for me, Yasuhiro Dustin T-Bird, it returns the lingering largesse of an inconsolable fear. The fear is this: that there's a thing as big as pirate continents in the China Sea that we've together mythologised up to now currently obstructing the procession of metropolitan traffic all the way to Yoyogi. His formidable draconian jaw with its legend of gargantuan teeth slacks open like a lifelong foe's long-withheld liability, and sulphur rents the air in acrid, acid plumes as though the most cultured and violent yellowcake fart in categorical memory. ~ Kirk Marshall

On Christmas morning, Dustin knocked on my door. "Miss Winters," he said cheerfully. "Breakfast."
I didn't move. My parents were dead. My boyfriend was dead. My grandfather had a mysterious hidden room that had books about the walking dead - which is what I knew I would feel like if I attempted to stand up.
"I don't feel well," I said meekly, and rolled over. ~ Yvonne Woon