Daily Inspiration Quote by Dustin Hoffman

Hoffman’s line lands because it dresses a very old Hollywood complaint in the clean tuxedo of a “witty aside.” A “junket” is industry slang for a press trip that’s half work, half indulgence: hotels, handlers, tightly scheduled interviews meant to sell a movie while flattering the people selling it. By calling it “aptly” a junket “for both of us,” Hoffman isn’t just ribbing the journalist; he’s poking at the transactional intimacy of celebrity media. Everyone is being paid in some currency: access, copy, promotion, prestige.

The prostitution comparison is the blade. He claims innocence (“I have never been…”), then immediately uses the brothel as the most legible metaphor for buying a pre-scripted encounter. The punchline hinges on “seven minutes,” the classic junket time slot, turning a supposedly meaningful conversation into a metered service. It’s a joke that humiliates without sounding cruel: Hoffman can always retreat to “comedian mode,” leaving the interviewer to laugh along or look thin-skinned.

Subtextually, it’s also defensive. Stars resent the artificiality of junkets, but they rely on them. Hoffman redirects that discomfort outward, framing himself as trapped in the same machinery as the reporter, even as his fame gives him the power to name the arrangement out loud. The line works because it’s honest enough to sting and polished enough to be quotable - a little act of rebellion that still plays perfectly inside the system it mocks.