I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting. — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
I got into plays in high school then I ended up going to college for it. — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York,… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
Sometimes I take a temperature of things just because everyone else does. Especially when I'm doing a play. I want to know… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
Actors are responsible to the people we play. I don't label or judge. I just play them as honestly and expressively and… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
Study, find all the good teachers and study with them, get involved in acting to act, not to be famous or for… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
Bob Glaudini, the writer, he's a wonderfully talented man and all his plays and his screenplays, they all have sense of something… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
When you think about [Truman] Capote in the - was what he did exploitative of a person's life or exploitative of these… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
I've seen a lot of friends who have a lot of great projects, whether it's a script or a play or whatever,… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
I would never not work on the part without it playing. That's what being an actor is. You use everything that's influenced you to… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share
I have a fine level of recognition in the business and among the acting community now, so I consider myself one of the lucky… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share
Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it. — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share
I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting. — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share
I was a breed of people who aren't capable of doing anything, really. At college I began to get the idea that being macho… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share
I would definitely say pleasure is not happiness. Because I think I kill pleasure. Like I take too much of it in, and therefore… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share
For me, acting is torturous, and it's torturous because you know it's a beautiful thing. I was young once, and I said, that's beautiful… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share
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… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share
I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid. — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share
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… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share
![“When you think about [Truman] Capote in the - was what he did exploitative of a person's life or exploitative of these murders? You look at our culture now, you look at celebrity and how it plays out in our culture now, and Capote was one of the great PR men of his time.” quote by Philip Seymour Hoffman](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c49/philip-seymour-hoffman-2704_capote_when-you-think-about-truman-capote-in-th_694751.jpg)
