Seymour Hoffman Quotes

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

There is no pleasure that I haven't actually made myself sick on. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

The actors I respect are the ones who see it as a career and manage to live reasonably normal lives, like Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman. — Max Irons

It's really hard to watch things and then not think about anything afterwards. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

Creating anything is hard. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

I think part of being an actor is staying private. — 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

As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he's a genius. — Simon Cowell

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

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. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

Plays never feel like the right thing to do at the time. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

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. — 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

You have all the influence you choose to have. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

To be fair to my dad, he is one of the brightest men I've ever met. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

I think good art, if I could be pretentious enough to say, I think good art deals with the micro to explain the macro. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

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. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

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. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

I've never been on a cruise. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

I've grown to really love musicals, you know? — Philip Seymour Hoffman

You can look at anything as a cult. Churches are cults in their own way. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

The drama nerd comes out in me when I'm in a theater. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

My soul is in good shape. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

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. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

I don't want to repeat myself. — 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

I didn't really buy LPs or go to concerts. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

Well, I think everyone struggles with self-love. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

I didn't have any idea that I would be able to have a career in film. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

My ideal weight is 205, actually. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

Acting's difficult for me because I think you have to be passionately involved in what you're doing. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

Was I happy? Or was I just not aware? — Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

The size of my head though is pretty abnormal. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

Learning how to die is therefore learning how to live, — Philip Seymour Hoffman

Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

My image of Jesus is someone who is exciting ... Were he alive today, he would be causing havoc! — Philip Seymour Hoffman

I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

I always thought I'd be a New York theater actor, riding my bicycle to rehearsal. That was all I ever wanted. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

Guys like Philip Seymour Hoffman or Sam Rockwell are the guys I look up to and have the kind of career I'd like to emulate. — Justin Long

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

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

Creating something is all about problem-solving. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

To be loved, I think, is the thing that gets you up in the morning. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

'The Master' is a wonderful film, honestly, and the actors, Joaquin Phoenix and Phillip Seymour Hoffman, are incredible. — Laetitia Casta

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

I've never been trained as an actor. I'm no Phillip Seymour Hoffman or Johnny Depp. — Trace Adkins

All over the world, young men and young women will always dream dreams. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

I feel like the need to want to create and make something is stronger than the difficulties are going through. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

Yeah, writers do hate writing. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

The film is made in the editing room ... — Philip Seymour Hoffman

The strange thing is I never thought I'd do films, — Philip Seymour Hoffman

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. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

In a film there a lot of people scheduling, you know. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed ... They're all inside me somewhere. — 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

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

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. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

I always wanted to be an actor, but my top three favorite actors of all time are Al Pacino, James Dean and Philip Seymour Hoffman. — Dane DeHaan

In film, you have to let go sometimes. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

There is no pleasure that I haven't made myself sick on. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

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. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

I had a father who was a traveling salesman. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

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. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

One person's religion is another person's cult. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

My focus is to grow, have fun, and work with people who inspire me, like Philip Seymour Hoffman. — Jesse Plemons

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 think I'm less anonymous than I was. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

I got sober when I was 22 years old. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

It's hard for anybody who works a lot and has children. But I wouldn't trade it for anything. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

I love 'Capote.' Huge fan of Philip Seymour Hoffman; if he's not my all-time favorite actor he's definitely in my top five. I just love him so much. — Chris Pratt

People actually live with their id exposed. They're not good at concealing what's going on inside. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

I try not to plan that too much. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

Good work is the only thing that would make me feel jealous or envious. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

A lot of deaths feel sad. Philip Seymour Hoffman's feels like a robbery. — James Poniewozik

When you read, you think, and when you smoke, you think. It's a pleasurable thing, and not a duty. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

To act well isn't an easy thing. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

Why you do something is always kind of a mystery to me. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

I like to try to change things up a bit in the way that actors such as Philip Seymour Hoffman or Michael Fassbender did and do. — Richard Madden

My mum is incredibly intelligent. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

Actors are investigators. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

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. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

Ultimately what I'll do next is up in the air for me. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

My girlfriend's a costume designer in the theater. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

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. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

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

I think you should be serious about what you do because this is it. This is the only life you've got. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

Actors are responsible to the people we play. — Philip Seymour Hoffman