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Val Kilmer on Breaking into Hollywood: “Work till you cry yourself to sleep every night for months on end”

“Never, ever, ever, ever, ever take a day off.” – Val Kilmer on Breaking into the Acting Business

Dustin Hoffman Taunted Meryl Streep About Her Dead Boyfriend While Working on ‘Kramer vs. Kramer’

“While filming the first scene, right before their entrance, he [Hoffman] slapped Streep hard across the cheek, leaving a red mark.”

Dustin Hoffman Teaches Acting in this Terrific New Masterclass

MasterClass is a new website that brings together people who are at the top of their game to give classes on their profession.

Dustin Hoffman: “It’s the worst that film has ever been – in the 50 years that I’ve been doing it”

“I was a freak accident, so I got a lead that happened to be The Graduate and it was like a light switch went on and I was an instant star” – Dustin Hoffman

Jason Schwartzman on Not Being Afraid to Fail as an Actor and Dustin Hoffman’s Acting Advice

During a recent Reddit AMA chat with Jason Schwartzman to promote his new film Listen Up Philip, Schwartzman was asked about his experience working on I <3 Huckabees. He went on to recall his pride about working with director David O. Russell, but also advice he received from Dustin Hoffman

SXSW Review: Jon Favreau’s ‘Chef’

As much as I like most of the big-budget films that Jon Favreau has directed, if he just stuck to smaller, personal films like Chef, you would never hear a complaint from me. Chef, written, directed and starring Favreau, is a little gem of a movie. Though, to be honest,

Maggie Smith: “I think as actors you’re intimidated most of the time by everything you have to do”

Not many septuagenarians — soon to be octogenarians — actresses still work steadily in film and television, but Dame Maggie Smith is no normal actress. Along with starring on the critically acclaimed Downton Abbey television series, she recently appeared in Quartet, Dustin Hoffman’s directorial debut.

Dustin Hoffman Talks About the Difficulties of Auditioning as a Method Actor

In an interview with NPR promoting his directorial debut Quartet, acting legend Dustin Hoffman talked about getting his start in acting. Famously, Hoffman beat out other actors for his breakthrough role of Benjamin in The Graduate like Robert Redford, who far more resembled the character in the original novel.

Dustin Hoffman Talks Directing ‘Quartet’ and His Thoughts on Actors: “I always think actors are not unlike the Victorian women”

Dustin Hoffman began his first directing project back in 1978 on the film Straight Time—before he fired himself for lack of confidence.

Shia LaBeouf Talks About the Lengths He’s Willing to Go to Be Respected as an Actor

There’s a famous, though embellished, story about classically trained actor Laurence Olivier and method actor Dustin Hoffman on the set of Marathon Man. According to the legend, Olivier asked Hoffman why he looked so tired on the set one morning, and Hoffman explained that he had stayed up the whole night in order to properly play a character who had stayed up all night. As a joke, Olivier replied something to the effect of, “Why not try acting? It’s much easier.”