Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes

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Philip Seymour Hoffman

Profession : Actor

Birth : July 23, 1967

I got sober when I was 22 years old.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Plays never feel like the right thing to do at the time.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Why you do something is always kind of a mystery to me.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I've had to make the transition from sweeping in for 15 minutes, doing my stuff and clearing out, to carrying a movie for the duration - in a dress.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think I'm as sane as anyone who's done what I've done in movies can be.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I don't want to repeat myself.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Good work is the only thing that would make me feel jealous or envious.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I try not to plan that too much.

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Ultimately what I'll do next is up in the air for me.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I've grown to really love musicals, you know?

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It's hard for anybody who works a lot and has children. But I wouldn't trade it for anything.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.

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I think you should be serious about what you do because this is it. This is the only life you've got.

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In a film there a lot of people scheduling, you know.

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It's really hard to watch things and then not think about anything afterwards.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

There's nothing risky in talking about your personal life. People do it all the time.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

You can look at anything as a cult. Churches are cults in their own way.

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