Quotes by Philip Seymour Hoffman

About Philip Seymour Hoffman:

Philip Seymour Hoffman was an American actor, director, and producer of film and theater. Best known for his distinctive supporting and character roles – typically lowlifes, bullies, and misfits – Hoffman was a regular presence in films from the early 1990s until his death at age 46.
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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.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

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.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

The size of my head though is pretty abnormal.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I didn't go out looking for negative characters; I went out looking for people who have a struggle and a fight to tackle. That's what interests me.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he'll spin six or seven plates in the air? Acting sometimes is kind of that guy spinning all those plates in the air but in your head and in your body.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

The weight comes off, you know? If you stop with the bread and the pie, it really does. It really works.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Well, I think everyone struggles with self-love.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I had insecurities and fears like everybody does, and I got over it. But I was interested in the parts of me that struggled with those things.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I know I wasn't as handsome as some other guys, but I was OK with that.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

When you're playing someone who really lived, you carry a burden, a burden to be accurate. But it's one that you have to let go of ultimately.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

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.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

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.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

No one wants to be pretentious about what they do or take it seriously, because that is just weird.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

When you have a child, as anyone knows who has them, that's basically all you want to talk about.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I don't have a specific thing I want anyone to get out of anything I do.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Author Bio

  • NamePhilip Seymour Hoffman
  • DescriptionAmerican actor and film director
  • BornJuly 23, 1967
  • DiedFebruary 2, 2014
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Film Director; Film Producer; Voice Actor
  • AwardsAcademy Award For Best Actor; Drama Desk Award For Outstanding Director Of A Play; Drama Desk Award For Outstanding Director Of A Play