Quotes By Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

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.

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

If I was a little bit younger I would worry more. I'd want to do one thing at a time but now I try to do a bunch of different things at a time if I can.

The size of my head though is pretty abnormal.

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

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

Well, I think everyone struggles with self-love.

I think part of being an actor is staying private.

In a film there a lot of people scheduling, you know.

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.

The idea that you have a vision of what you're supposed to be, or going to be, or where your kids are going to be - and that that doesn't work out - is always going to be something that's going to affect people and move people.

I try not to plan that too much.

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

Yeah, writers do hate writing.

My mum is incredibly intelligent.

Actors are investigators.

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

I think therapy is a helpful thing. I think everyone knows it. You do it for your life, you do it for yourself, because you want to explore some things, and get at the bottom of some things. It's about your life, the quality of your life.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

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

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.

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

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.

I have a family.