If I'm directing actors, I learn about acting that way. If I'm acting, I learn about directing that way. Producing is just… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
Life is short. Time is short. As we get older, time does quicken. It's long, and it's long pertaining to that thought,… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Success isn't what makes you happy. It really isn't. Success is doing what makes you happy and doing good work and hopefully… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think I'm as sane as anyone who's done what… — 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
