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 Copy Share Image
Ultimately, all characters have some negative and positive energies. That's just how I see it. I didn't go out looking for negative… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
I didn't go out looking for negative characters; I went out looking for people who have a struggle and a fight to… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it. — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting. — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
