Dustin Hoffman admits he didn't think Angelina Jolie would go far.

While promoting their No. 1 movie Kung Fu Panda, he told reporters about first meeting the actress when she was 16.

(See 14 photos of Angelina Jolie through the years.)

He said her father Jon Voight (who co-starred with him in Midnight Cowboy) brought Angelina and her brother James Haven to the set of his 1991 movie Hook.

"He called me up and said, 'My kids are dying to meet Captain Hook. Are you in costume? Can I come over with the kids?'"

"'Yes, sure. Come over,'" Hoffman told him. "So he brings over his kids. I'm introduced to his son and his daughter."

"'This is Angelina,'" Voight told Hoffman, who described Jolie as a "tall, thin, gawky-looking girl with a mouth full of braces.

"I was just making conversation. 'So do you guys have any idea what you want to do?'" he asked her. "And she gave me a laser-like intensity look, and she says, 'I'm going to be an actress.'

"And I went home to my wife and I said, 'I don't think this kid has any idea what a tough road she's got.'"

Jolie went on to win an Academy Award, find love with Brad Pitt (they're expecting twins this summer) and is generating Oscar buzz for her role in the Clint Eastwood drama Changeling (out in October).

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