Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes

It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

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• The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Music
  • Ideas
  • Painting

• If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Day
  • Fall
  • Tree

• A lot of the players that I play with who are Canadian, they call me Patty. Before then, I never heard it. I didn't mind Patty.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Mind
  • Play
  • Never

• Trying to think about the rest of the team over myself or my scoring is something that I never really had to do before.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Trying
  • Team
  • Myself

• Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • Quality
  • Quantity

• I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Genuine

• I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he's also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Up
  • Work
  • Business

• Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Home
  • Growing

• The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.

  

  Ednita Nazario
  • Believe
  • Look
  • I Believe

• I think, especially in pop culture, we're brought up to think that a normal pop star is this pretty, well-kept-together girl.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Up
  • Together
  • Pretty

• With my book 'How to Remodel a Man,' I was on 'Oprah,' 'Fox News,' 'The Early Show,' and 'Good Morning America.' 'Oprah' was the best - an hour long segment. TV is so short, you answer a few questions, and then it's over. It feels like a hit-and-run with a camera.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Good
  • Long
  • Book

• I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Time
  • Light
  • Football

• I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
  • Day
  • Betrayal

• The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Reality
  • Language
  • Insult

• Jadakiss is not no walk in no park. Nas is not no walk in no park. These are dudes that could have ended my career.

  

  Beanie Sigel
  • Career
  • Walk
  • Park

• Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Mind
  • Focus
  • Positive

• I left my mark on 'Dark Shadows.' One day I was doing my lines perfectly from Act 3. Everyone else was doing Act 2.

  

  Kate Jackson
  • Day
  • Dark
  • Doing

• I have always actually been with and attracted to very strong women, and I think I've learned a lot from them.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Women
  • Think
  • Strong

• I chose 'Time' by Hans Zimmer because it's very melodic, and the way it progresses throughout the track is very unique. I am personally a very big fan of piano melodies, and to me, 'Time' is just perfect.

  

  Alan Walker
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Unique

• I sang a lot as a little girl and entered competitions. I loved singing in choirs, but it was as I got older that I really found my voice.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Girl
  • Singing

• Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. One seeks the most general ideas of operation which will bring together in simple, logical and unified form the largest possible circle of formal relationships. In this effort toward logical beauty spiritual formulas are discovered necessary for the deeper penetration into the laws of nature.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Together
  • Nature
  • Simple

• Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Better
  • Made

• I realize that I want something more. Success is great, but then you also wake up in your hotel room at four in the morning and you're like, wouldn't it be nice to have someone here with me.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Up
  • Great
  • Success

• It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other.

  

  Philip Seymour Hoffman
  • Important
  • Support
  • Alone