Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes

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Philip Seymour Hoffman

Profession : Actor

Birth : July 23, 1967

I didn't really buy LPs or go to concerts.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I've never been on a cruise.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Film's hard when you don't have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a gun for hire.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

The weight comes off, you know? If you stop with the bread and the pie, it really does. It really works.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I think I'm less anonymous than I was.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

In film, you have to let go sometimes.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I know some really great actors who are pretty judgmental people, pretty critical people. But they're great actors. When they're acting, that's the craft.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I had insecurities and fears like everybody does, and I got over it. But I was interested in the parts of me that struggled with those things.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

My mum is incredibly intelligent.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

To be fair to my dad, he is one of the brightest men I've ever met.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I've worked with a lot of characters that are unhinged. I've played characters that are unhinged. That's, like, my job.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

To act well isn't an easy thing.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Yeah, writers do hate writing.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Actors are investigators.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

The idea that you have a vision of what you're supposed to be, or going to be, or where your kids are going to be - and that that doesn't work out - is always going to be something that's going to affect people and move people.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I think part of being an actor is staying private.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me somewhere.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

If I don't feel like I'm doing the job well, and I don't know how to get there, or I'm too scared, or whatever, I'm not a happy guy and I'm not pleasant. I'm not pleasant to be around.

Philip Seymour Hoffman