10+ Interesting Things About Dustin Hoffman Fans Didn't Know

It is, of course, "I'm walking here!" from Midnight Cowboy.

The actor told The National Post that they timed the walking scene with the traffic light turning green when a cab came out of nowhere.

"But somehow something told me you’d better keep it within the character. And then Schlesinger jumps out of the van and goes, ‘What happened? What happened? What happened?’ We told him, he says, we have to do it again just like that. That’s in the movie. It almost hit us, that guy.”

He played a young man who is lured into an affair with a much older woman. She also happened to be the wife of his father's business partner...

He told The Guardian that he “plummeted to stardom” following the movie.

“[Mike] Nichols chose to give this short, funny-looking Jewish guy the role usually reserved for a tall, handsome protestant,” he said.

That's quite the handful!

He had two children with his first wife, Anne Byrne Hoffman: Karina and Jenna (Karina was Anne's daughter who he adopted).

Then, he had four kids with his second wife, Lisa Gottsegen.

"Dustin asked how many children I wanted. I said six, and he said he had two already, so would four be OK. And that's exactly the way it has played out," his wife, Lisa, told the Daily Mail.

Don't let his hilarious time as the dad on Meet the Fockers fool you — he's actually a prestigious actor!

He won the Oscar for Best Actor for Kramer vs. Kramer in 1980 and Rain Man in 1989.

There are a lot of celebs who have shacked up before.

Hoffman stayed at Hackman's New York apartment after they worked together at the Pasadena Playhouse. He later became roommates with their mutual friend, Robert Duvall

Thanks to his role in the 1970 film, Little Big Man, he received the award for Greatest Age Span Portrayed by a Movie Actor.

That's because he played the character, Jack Crabb, from age 17 to age 121.

He told The Times where his passion for music came from.

"I didn’t read music easily, and I didn’t have anywhere near perfect pitch. We were in the car [today] next to a cement mixer, and I remembered a song I knew as a kid: 'cement mixer, put-ti put-ti.'"

He continued:

"If God tapped me on the shoulder and said, “You can’t do anything more in your profession. In exchange, I’ll allow you to be a jazz pianist”–[snaps fingers]–like that. Oh, God."

"Dustin was studying to be a classical pianist before he became an actor, and when he was 16 he was the pianist at my parents' wedding, when my mother was pregnant with me," Lisa told the Daily Mail.

"After The Graduate, I was kind of first in line of my generation. When I think back, I think, I shouldn’t have turned Ingmar Bergman down twice," he told The Times.

He continued on, saying that he even spent time in therapy over it.

"I have spent many years in therapy finding out why. I tried to jeopardize my success, and in spite of myself, I couldn’t succeed. But I’m still sad that I made those mistakes."

Back when he was a struggling actor, he did what he had to to get by.

This included working in a psychiatric hospital, as a sales assistant in Macy’s toy department, and as a weaver of Hawaiian garlands.

It's sadly why he thought he wouldn't land the role in The Graduate. He thought that the director was looking for the next Robert Redford.

"You can say it, I'm ugly, I'm ugly!" he told GQ UK.

"And I never have, because I figure, well, yeah, you've gotta be handsome."

Aw, Dustin!

The actor told The Times that this stems from his kids making fun of them.

"Growing up, they made fun of me because I’d say, 'Let me put this on, you’ll love this.' They’d say, 'Is it black and white, or color?' I’d say, 'Black and white.' No!

"They learned not to listen to me. But I don’t have a kid who’s seen everything I’ve done. I don’t want to belabor them in that way."

Hopefully, they've learned to appreciate his work!