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Dustin Hoffman Quotes

Total quotes: 14
“The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk...didya know that?”
— Enrico Salvatore "Ratso" Rizzo, Midnight Cowboy
Tagged: Sunshine, coconut milk
“Mr. Robinson: You'll never be young again.

Benjamin: I know.”
— Ben Braddock, The Graduate
Tagged: Youth, Aging
“He was even dumber than you. He couldn't even write his own name. 'X,' that's what it ought to say on that goddamn headstone, one big lousy 'X'. Just like our dump. Condemned by order of City Hall.”
— Enrico Salvatore "Ratso" Rizzo, Midnight Cowboy
Tagged: gravestone, X, dumb, father
“It's like I was playing some kind of game, but the rules don't make any sense to me. They're being made up by all the wrong people. I mean no one makes them up. They seem to make themselves up.”
— Ben Braddock, The Graduate
Tagged: Game, Rules
“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.”
— Ben Braddock, The Graduate
Tagged: Marriage, i don't like you in that way
“You want the word on that brother-and-sister act, Hansel's a fag and Gretel's got the hots for herself, so who cares, right? Load up on the salami.”
— Enrico Salvatore "Ratso" Rizzo, Midnight Cowboy
Tagged: Hansel and Gretel, fag, salami, Homophobia
“Benjamin: Listen to me. What happened between Mrs. Robinson and me was nothing. It didn't mean anything. We might just as well have been shaking hands.

Mr. Robinson: Shaking hands? Well, that's not saying much for my wife, is it?”
— Ben Braddock, The Graduate
Tagged: affair, Sex, shaking hands
“Ratso Rizzo: You know, in my own place, my name ain't Ratso. I mean, it just so happens that in my own place my name is Enrico Salvatore Rizzo.

Joe Buck: Well, I can't say all that.

Ratso Rizzo: Rico, then.”
— Enrico Salvatore "Ratso" Rizzo, Midnight Cowboy
Tagged: Respect, Nicknames, insults
“I'm walking here! I'm walking here!”
— Enrico Salvatore "Ratso" Rizzo, Midnight Cowboy
Tagged: Walking, Traffic
“Benjamin: For God's sake, Mrs. Robinson. Here we are. You got me into your house. You give me a drink. You... put on music. Now, you start opening up your personal life to me and tell me your husband won't be home for hours.

Mrs. Robinson: So?

Benjamin: Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me!”
— Ben Braddock, The Graduate
Tagged: seduction
“Benjamin: Mrs. Robinson, I can't do this anymore.

Mrs. Robinson: You what?

Benjamin: This is all terribly wrong.

Mrs. Robinson: Do you find me undesirable?

Benjamin: Oh no, Mrs. Robinson. I think, I think you're the most attractive of all my parents' friends. I mean that.”
— Ben Braddock, The Graduate
Tagged: Guilt, Affairs, Cougar
“Mrs. Robinson: Benjamin, I want you to know that I'm available to you, and if you won't sleep with me this time...

Benjamin: Oh, my Christ.

Mrs. Robinson: If you won't sleep with me this time I want you to know that you can call me up anytime you want and we'll make some kind of arrangement.”
— Ben Braddock, The Graduate
Tagged: seduction
“Joe Buck: I like the way I look. Makes me feel good, it does. And women like me, goddammit. Hell, the only one thing I ever been good for is lovin'. Women go crazy for me, that's a really true fact! Ratso, hell! Crazy Annie they had to send her away!

Ratso Rizzo: Then how come you ain't scored once the whole time you been in New York?”
— Enrico Salvatore "Ratso" Rizzo, Midnight Cowboy
Tagged: Good-Looking, womanizer
“"If I was going to be a woman, I would want to be as beautiful as possible. And they said to me, ‘Uh, that’s as beautiful as we can get you.’ And I went home and started crying to my wife, and I said, ‘I have to make this picture.’ And she said, ‘Why?’ And I said, ‘Because I think I’m an interesting woman when I look at myself on screen, and I know that if I met myself at a party, I would never talk to that character because she doesn’t fulfill, physically, the demands that we’re brought up to think that women have to have in order for us to ask them out.’ She says, ‘What are you saying?’ and I said, ‘There’s too many interesting women I have not had the experience to know in this life because I have been brainwashed.’ It was not what it felt like to be a woman. It was what it felt like to be someone that people didn’t respect, for the wrong reasons. I know it’s a comedy. But comedy’s a serious business."”
— Dustin Hoffman, Dustin Hoffman on TOOTSIE and his character Dorothy Michaels
Tagged: Being a woman, Makeup, beauty, feminism
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