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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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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I got into plays in high school then I ended up going to college for it.
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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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I try not to plan that too much.
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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 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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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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My soul is in good shape.
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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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I don't have a specific thing I want anyone to get out of anything I do.
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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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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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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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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 had a father who was a traveling salesman.
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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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The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.
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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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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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If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged.
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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.