Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes
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I think therapy is a helpful thing. I think everyone knows it. You do it for your life, you do it for yourself, because you want to explore some things, and get at the bottom of some things. It's about your life, the quality of your life.
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To be fair to my dad, he is one of the brightest men I've ever met.
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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.
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Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends.
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Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly.
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Plays never feel like the right thing to do at the time.
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People actually live with their id exposed. They're not good at concealing what's going on inside.
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I know I wasn't as handsome as some other guys, but I was OK with that.
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I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting.
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The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.
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The size of my head though is pretty abnormal.
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Actors are responsible to the people we play.
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I got into plays in high school then I ended up going to college for it.
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One person's religion is another person's cult.
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The drama nerd comes out in me when I'm in a theater.
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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.
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I try not to plan that too much.
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In life, do you ever really know if you're missing an opportunity? No, you really don't.
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There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a luxury problem.
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When people don't know who you are, they're seeing your work for the first time. But if they've seen a lot, getting certain things across is a more difficult.
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I have a fine level of recognition in the business and among the acting community now, so I consider myself one of the lucky ones. If I didn't think that, there would be something wrong with me. I'm grateful and thankful for what I've got.
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I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic.
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There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters; what happens to them is not lifelike.
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The foibles of my body are pretty much out there in the work I do.