Dustin Hoffman at the premiere of Tootsie, 1982.
Mrs. Braddock: What makes you think she wants to marry you?
Benjamin: Oh, she doesn’t. To be perfectly honest, she doesn’t like me.
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Mrs. Robinson, if you don’t mind my saying so, this conversation is getting a little strange.
Rain Man (USA, 1988)
“I’ve always had little patience for people who say, “There’s nothing to see! There’s nothing to read!” I say, “Fine! Do you know how many great films have been made in the last hundred years? Go get them! There are so many masterpieces, you won’t be able to watch all of them!” And there are so many good books. Listen, we could stop art right now, and you wouldn’t be able to read enough or see enough of the great stuff.” —Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Hoffman photographed by Douglas Kirkland, 1988.
When asked to audition for the part of Benjamin Braddock in The Graduate, Dustin Hoffman says, he told director Mike Nichols, “I’m not right for this part, sir. This is a Gentile. This is a Wasp. This is Robert Redford.… And Mike said, ‘Maybe he’s Jewish inside. Why don’t you come out and audition for us?’ ”
Dustin Hoffman on the set of The Graduate, 1967.
Dustin Hoffman and Justin Henry on the set of Kramer vs. Kramer (1979).
Dustin Hoffman on the set of The Graduate, 1967.
