Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes

I don't want to repeat myself.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

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• I think it's such a powerful thing: Words and melodies, and you put them together. I couldn't really picture a world without music. It would be quite boring.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • World
  • Music
  • Together

• Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Past
  • Person
  • New

• Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Love
  • For Him
  • Discrimination

• As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Dead
  • Ghost
  • Civil

• I think theatricality is just one way of performing. I don't think it's a better way or the way, but it's my way.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Think
  • Way
  • Better

• I had these experiences as a kid; I remember certain things happening in school that were horrifying that I would see, certain things of violence or certain things of cruelty, but around that, something might happen afterwards to cause everyone to laugh, and that always blew me away.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • School
  • Remember
  • Violence

• If my wife was to say, 'Honey, I'd like you to go to PSG', I would have to take it into account.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • You
  • Wife
  • Honey

• Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.

  

  Jack Welch
  • King
  • Competition
  • Communication

• Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only way that theater will continue to grow. All the other audience members are going to be dead soon!

  

  Adam Pascal
  • Good
  • Doing
  • Grow

• For me, growing up in a ridiculously poor family living in dead-end neighborhoods, Superman was a deeply personal icon, one that said you can do anything if you put your mind to it. What he stood for formed the core of who I wanted to be as I grew up, and informed how I view the world and my responsibilities to other people.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• We have a renewed energy and vigor in our supporters and we are no longer so frightened about the future.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Future
  • Energy
  • Frightened

• There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people still slap these images on my books and I go bananas.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • People
  • Flower
  • Presentation

• The censors have always had a field day with James Joyce, specifically with 'Ulysses,' but also with his other writings. The conventional wisdom is that this is because of sexually explicit passages (and there certainly are those). I have always thought that what the critics hated and feared about Joyce is his cry for human freedom.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Freedom
  • Day
  • Wisdom

• I think people will believe anything about someone they haven't seen for a while.

  

  Gabe Kaplan
  • People
  • Believe
  • Think

• Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Time
  • Women
  • May

• I don't think music affects what words I choose to type in what order, within what punctuation, at this point, because I'm rereading and editing each sentence, at this point, in my published books, probably 100-150 times each, on average, and listening to probably 20-60 different songs in that time.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Long
  • Wife
  • Always

• I got sober, and I got happy again.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Happy
  • Got
  • Sober

• War expands government powers. The trouble is that, when the war goes away, the government powers do not.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • War
  • Government
  • Trouble

• I really write for people.

  

  John Eaton
  • People

• And it is crucial of course that chief constables are able to make decisions within their budgets about how they deploy their police officers to the greatest effect to ensure that they're able to do the job that the public want them to do.

  

  Theresa May
  • Job
  • Decisions
  • Chief

• 'Hamilton' just asks us all to go a little bit deeper: whether you're a hip-hop fan seeing musical theater for the first time, or if you were thinking you were gonna see some reprise of 1776, and now it's this? And you're thinking, 'Wait a minute, these people aren't white!' It asks you just take a step and go a little deeper.

  

  Phillipa Soo
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• There's nothing new under the sun. We talk about the same things all the time on air.

  

  Angela Rye
  • Time
  • Air
  • Sun

• I don't want to repeat myself.

  

  Philip Seymour Hoffman