Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes
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One person's religion is another person's cult.
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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 didn't have any idea that I would be able to have a career in film.
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Ultimately what I'll do next is up in the air for me.
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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 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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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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To act well isn't an easy thing.
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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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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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Actors are investigators.
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I've grown to really love musicals, you know?
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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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I had a father who was a traveling salesman.
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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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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 don't have a specific thing I want anyone to get out of anything I do.
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Creating anything is hard.
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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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Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that.
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It's really hard to watch things and then not think about anything afterwards.