Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes

If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free chance to practice your craft.

The film is made in the editing room.

You have all the influence you choose to have.

I have an awful memory, and I have a great memory. Meaning that, if I'm trying to remember something, I can't remember it. But my recall is fantastic.

I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'

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.

Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.

I think you gotta have an honesty and a humility about human nature and that it's not about you at the end of the day.

I've worked with a lot of characters that are unhinged. I've played characters that are unhinged. That's, like, my job.

Something that could bring you wealth and fame could also be your end, your undoing.

There is no pleasure that I haven't actually made myself sick on.

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.

I feel like I made a little bit of difference.

Why you do something is always kind of a mystery to me.

The strange thing is I never thought I'd do films.

Great talent admits shortcomings.

The drama nerd comes out in me when I'm in a theater.

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

I would definitely say pleasure is not happiness. Because I think I kill pleasure. Like I take too much of it in, and therefore make it un-pleasurable, like too much coffee, and you're miserable.

I think I'm less anonymous than I was.

Life is short. Time is short. As we get older, time does quicken. It's long, and it's long pertaining to that thought, that the past is not done with you because you can't rid of it.

I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.

There's nothing risky in talking about your personal life. People do it all the time.

You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.

I've seen a lot of friends who have a lot of great projects, whether it's a script or a play or whatever, and it is a great project and they have great people involved, and they can't make it.

My girlfriend's a costume designer in the theater.

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.

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.

I've grown to really love musicals, you know?

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.

In life, do you ever really know if you're missing an opportunity? No, you really don't.

I had a father who was a traveling salesman.

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.

I didn't really buy LPs or go to concerts.

People aren't going to throw the kind of money at certain people that they used to.

I got into plays in high school then I ended up going to college for it.

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

A self-awareness moment. All of a sudden everything he has done comes flashing into his mind, a self-criticism that is unbearable.

My mum is incredibly intelligent.

I try not to plan that too much.

My ideal weight is 205, actually.

People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think I'm as sane as anyone who's done what I've done in movies can be.

Plays never feel like the right thing to do at the time.

Sometimes I'm uncomfortable with the level of fame I've got! It all depends on the day and what's going on. I don't desire any more fame. I don't need it.

The foibles of my body are pretty much out there in the work I do.

I was probably finding my feet more than anybody. I really have to say I was more obsessed with myself faltering than anybody else.

[Truman Capote] was not only just selling his writing, but he was selling himself as a person.

Sometimes I take a temperature of things just because everyone else does. Especially when I'm doing a play. I want to know what people are thinking, positive or negative.

In order for something to be born, something has to die.That's not always, but there is something about that that I find to be true. That is, it's a natural thing.

Bob Glaudini, the writer, he's a wonderfully talented man and all his plays and his screenplays, they all have sense of something bigger, even though you're looking at something very simple.