Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes

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

Philip Seymour Hoffman

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• I think of myself as a cover girl. But I would never do some kind of cheesy magazine.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Girl
  • Kind
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• I have no contracts with my clients; just a handshake is enough.

  

  Irving Paul Lazar
  • Enough
  • Clients
  • Handshake

• Thankfully I'm not endlessly ambitious, but I have done some crazy ambitious things like buying an island off the west coast of Scotland in the late Sixties.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Done
  • Crazy
  • Island

• Being bombastic for the sake of being bombastic has just never been my take on the world.

  

  Dan Malloy
  • World
  • Never
  • Take

• I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Small
  • Sorry
  • Bird

• I have no interest in directing. I've no talent for it.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Talent
  • Interest
  • Directing

• The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Soul
  • You
  • Presence

• I can only tell you that eggs, country ham, biscuits, a pot of coffee, a morning paper, a table by the window overlooking the veranda and putting green, listening to the idle chitchat of competitors, authors, wits and philosophers, hasn't exactly been a torturous way to begin each day at the Masters all these years.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Country
  • Day
  • Morning

• I don't think anybody ever saw anybody taking anything.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Think
  • Anything
  • saw

• It's as simple as something that nobody knows.

  

  Galveston Giant
  • Simple
  • Something
  • Nobody

• We hear tears loudly on this side of Heaven. What we don't take time to contemplate are the even louder cheers on the other side of death's valley.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Time
  • Death
  • Heaven

• I think every revolutionary act is an act of love. Every song that I've written, it is because of my desire to use music as a way to empower and re-humanize people who are living in a dehumanizing setting. The song is in order to better the human condition.

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
  • People
  • Music
  • Desire

• The way in which people talk about climate is just so wonky and so abstract and such a boys' club that it makes a lot of women just roll their eyes or feel that they are somehow not qualified. I certainly had to fight that feeling in myself in order to write about it.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Women
  • Feeling

• Every blossom I see reminds me of you

  

  Eddie Cantor

• We began talking about the characters and he opened up about his vision. He's extremely thoughtful and sees grand issues both social and political in an interesting way. Quite honestly, I wasn't certain how some of his ideas were applicable to the screenplay, but he was heartfelt and adamant about them. And I remember completely going with it.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Political

• But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and what they can even learn to like. (It just takes some people longer than others. :-)

  

  Larry Wall
  • People
  • Important

• The sitting room is subdued, symmetrical; it’s one of the shapes money takes when it freezes.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • Money

• It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.

  

  Leo Buscaglia
  • Live
  • May
  • Hope

• I don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain.

  

  Jeremy Thomas
  • Business
  • Movie
  • Brain

• It's funny what producer Richard Zanuck said about even though you can't quite place when the book or the story came into your life, and I do vaguely remember roughly five years old reading versions of Alice in Wonderland, but the thing is the characters. You always know the characters. Everyone knows the characters and they're very well-defined characters, which I always thought was fascinating. Most people who haven't read the book definitely know the characters and reference them.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Producer
  • Richard Zanuck

• VR is so immersive, and when it works, it draws you into the story in a way that is truly unique and powerful.

  

  Doug Liman
  • Powerful
  • Unique

• Writing is a very lonely occupation. To write you need to concentrate, to concentrate you need to lock yourself away. No distractions; you want your stream of thought uninterrupted.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Writing
  • Thought
  • Yourself

• There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that's what a parent's tears often are, a nostalgia for something that has not yet occurred. They are the pain of hope, the helplessness of hope, and finally, the surrender to hope.

  

  Michael Ian Black
  • Pain
  • Feelings
  • Tears

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

  

  Philip Seymour Hoffman