Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes

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Philip Seymour Hoffman

Profession : Actor

Birth : July 23, 1967

People actually live with their id exposed. They're not good at concealing what's going on inside.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Sometimes I'm uncomfortable with the level of fame I've got! It all depends on the day and what's going on. I don't desire any more fame. I don't need it.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

The foibles of my body are pretty much out there in the work I do.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

The size of my head though is pretty abnormal.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a luxury problem.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

If I was a little bit younger I would worry more. I'd want to do one thing at a time but now I try to do a bunch of different things at a time if I can.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

When you have a child, as anyone knows who has them, that's basically all you want to talk about.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

The drama nerd comes out in me when I'm in a theater.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Creating anything is hard.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

When you're playing someone who really lived, you carry a burden, a burden to be accurate. But it's one that you have to let go of ultimately.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters; what happens to them is not lifelike.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I didn't go out looking for negative characters; I went out looking for people who have a struggle and a fight to tackle. That's what interests me.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I don't have a specific thing I want anyone to get out of anything I do.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

My girlfriend's a costume designer in the theater.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he'll spin six or seven plates in the air? Acting sometimes is kind of that guy spinning all those plates in the air but in your head and in your body.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.

Philip Seymour Hoffman