Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes
Top 90 wise famous quotes and sayings by Philip Seymour Hoffman
Philip Seymour Hoffman Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Philip Seymour Hoffman on Wise Famous Quotes.
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.
I've worked with a lot of characters that are unhinged. I've played characters that are unhinged. That's, like, my job.
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.
My love for the theater has always been a priority. That hasn't changed. I got into acting that way. The film work that came up was really a surprise.
I think good art, if I could be pretentious enough to say, I think good art deals with the micro to explain the macro.
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.
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 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.
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 think you should be serious about what you do because this is it. This is the only life you've got.
A self-awareness moment. All of a sudden everything he has done comes flashing into his mind, a self-criticism that is unbearable.
Sometimes being an actor is like being some kind of detective where you're on the search for a secret that will unlock the character.
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.
It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other.
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.
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.
I was probably finding my feet more than anybody. I really have to say I was more obsessed with myself faltering than anybody else.
Acting's difficult for me because I think you have to be passionately involved in what you're doing.
Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends.
The weight comes off, you know? If you stop with the bread and the pie, it really does. It really works.
Being with a kid always takes you to being a kid somehow, and they really are showing me a childhood I might not have had in some way.
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.
If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged.
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.
The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed ... They're all inside me somewhere.
I feel like the need to want to create and make something is stronger than the difficulties are going through.
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.
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.
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 always thought I'd be a New York theater actor, riding my bicycle to rehearsal. That was all I ever wanted.