Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes
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The foibles of my body are pretty much out there in the work I do.
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People aren't going to throw the kind of money at certain people that they used to.
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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 like to come to the set with very strong ideas and strong opinions about how to do things. And I like also dealing with somebody who's like that.
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The film is made in the editing room. The shooting of the film is about shopping, almost. It's like going to get all the ingredients together, and you've got to make sure before you leave the store that you got all the ingredients. And then you take those ingredients and you can make a good cake - or not.
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To act well isn't an easy thing.
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I didn't have any idea that I would be able to have a career in film.
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I've grown to really love musicals, you know?
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I try not to plan that too much.
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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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I think you ultimately have to love who you're playing. You have to have that kind of feeling. You have to have passion for the person.
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If I don't feel like I'm doing the job well, and I don't know how to get there, or I'm too scared, or whatever, I'm not a happy guy and I'm not pleasant. I'm not pleasant to be around.
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I do understand what it is to not want to commit to someone, knowing that might bring pain or commit to a life that has to do with being responsible to people other than myself. These things, I think, are normal things.
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I don't have a specific thing I want anyone to get out of anything I do.
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The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me somewhere.
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It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other.
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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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I've had to make the transition from sweeping in for 15 minutes, doing my stuff and clearing out, to carrying a movie for the duration - in a dress.
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It's really hard to watch things and then not think about anything afterwards.
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I had a father who was a traveling salesman.
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Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film.
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Creating anything is hard.
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Film's hard when you don't have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a gun for hire.
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My soul is in good shape.