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

• Important
• Support
• Alone

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• 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

• Like most writers, I find the Web is a wonderful distraction. Who doesn't need that last minute research before writing?

  

  Chris Abani
  • Writing

• We built a business for ourselves just out of hard work, and I think people really want to hear from us about that.

  

  Mark Duplass
  • People
  • Work
  • Business

• There are always a lot of leading questions and opinions. Of course, our work is creative, and it's subjective.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Work
  • Opinion
  • Creative

• If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Challenge
  • Genius
  • Mood

• I am so proud to be black. I am, nevertheless, tired of the oppression. We need to develop and support a cohesive black agenda. We need to do what leaders have suggested since slavery. We need to recognize that while we are not monolithic, there is power in embracing a common agenda.

  

  Angela Rye
  • Power
  • Black
  • Support

• 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