Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes
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To act well isn't an easy thing.
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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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There's nothing risky in talking about your personal life. People do it all the time.
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Creating something is all about problem-solving.
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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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People aren't going to throw the kind of money at certain people that they used to.
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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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I've grown to really love musicals, you know?
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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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The weight comes off, you know? If you stop with the bread and the pie, it really does. It really works.
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The foibles of my body are pretty much out there in the work I do.
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You can look at anything as a cult. Churches are cults in their own way.
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Actors are investigators.
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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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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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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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Creating anything is hard.
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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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I don't have a specific thing I want anyone to get out of anything I do.
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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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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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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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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.